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An mpd clone in Ruby
I was bored, so I decided to write a clone of my music player of choice, the excellent mpd. I also put together a little client, similar to my favorite mpd client, the highly usable mpc. These are of … more →
Keeping it Small and Simple
Self Arugment in the 3rd Normal
wr3cktangle wrote 3 days ago: I started working on integrating SQLite into my distweet bot. Then I got stopped. Partially from bei … more →
The DevIL Image Library For Ruby
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banisterfiend wrote 1 month ago: DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almo … more →
wtf?! Infinite Ranges in Ruby
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banisterfiend wrote 1 month ago: First let’s define an Infinity constant (since Ruby does not come with one): Inf = 1.0 / 0.0 N … more →
Server Re-Setup and the Return of Ajfitzbot
wr3cktangle wrote 1 month ago: Finally set up my server again. Reinstalled it with Windows Server 2008 and not Windows Web Server 2 … more →
Ruby, JSON, and some more Twitter
wr3cktangle wrote 4 months ago: I’m currently working on building my initial Dissociated Press source using Twitter’s se … more →
pass parameters in rake test
ericzou wrote 5 months ago: parameters are passed in rake test through ENV hash, here is an example: $>rake foo:bar example=' … more →
execute shell command in ruby rake task
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ericzou wrote 5 months ago: There are a few differnt options to execute shell cmd in ruby rake task: 1. exec 2. system 3. backti … more →
Getting off track with Rails!... Oh!, the puns!
zanev wrote 7 months ago: Yes, like every other human being who has come across Ruby On Rails there is a strange temptation to … more →
Gears on Rails anyone?
oviduri wrote 8 months ago: Has anyone had some experience with Gears on Rails? What are the pros and cons in a real-work enviro … more →
First steps with Rails
oviduri wrote 8 months ago: While I’m waiting for the arrival of my copy of Ruby The Programming Language, I’m flipp … more →
YAML Sucks. Gems Sucks. Syck Sucks.
Ciaran McCreesh wrote 8 months ago: YAML, like XML (but don’t say that around YAML fans, because they will insist that YAML is not … more →
Updating A C Extension For Ruby 1.9.1
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banisterfiend wrote 9 months ago: One of my favourite C extensions for Ruby 1.8.6 is Mixology. Mixology makes it possible to dynamical … more →
Dupping Our Way Out of Instance Eval?
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banisterfiend wrote 11 months ago: Although Instance_eval can be a great tool for creating clean DSLs it does, unfortunately, suffer fr … more →
Object2module: Converting Ruby Objects to Modules
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banisterfiend wrote 11 months ago: If Modules have one property that Classes envy it would be their ability for dynamic inclusion in an … more →
Recursive Lambdas in Ruby using Object#tap
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote 11 months ago: Paludis represents an ebuild’s homepage as a dependency-style heirarchy, since PMS allows use- … more →
A Complete Ruby Class Diagram
banisterfiend wrote 12 months ago: Although there are a few Ruby class-diagrams floating around the net I have yet to come across one t … more →
Object State Transitions using the Mixology C extension
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banisterfiend wrote 1 year ago: Stateology is an implementation of the State Pattern using the Mixology C extension. Stateology fol … more →
OfflineSearch
thomaspeklak wrote 1 year ago: Quite a while ago I started my first Ruby project – OfflineSearch. I know that the name does not sou … more →
The Secret Life Of Singletons
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banisterfiend wrote 1 year ago: The focus of this article will be on one of the more ethereal and little-discussed properties of Sin … more →
