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Ruby on Windows the Easy Way: With Linux 1 Aug 2013 | 12:57 am
I like Windows. There, I said it. When I switched to Linux, I did it to get away from Windows 98 (remember having to reboot 3 times a day?), but Windows sure has changed. In the past 10 years, it's...
Ruby on Windows the Easy Way: With Linux Part 3 1 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
Almost there! We installed Linux on top of Windows, we got Ruby up and running, and now we just need that "other stuff." The most essential tools for any Rubyist: Git, Vim and Zsh! Of course opinio...
Ruby on Windows the Easy Way: With Linux Part 2 31 Jul 2013 | 08:40 pm
Now that we've set up VirtualBox, picked a Linux distro and installed it, it's time to get down to business and install Linux. As usual, I'll be using RVM. There are other methods, but this is by fa...
Ruby on Windows the Easy Way: With Linux Part 1 31 Jul 2013 | 10:24 am
My chosen desktop operating system is Windows. While it's not the greatest choice for programming, in the past decade or so it's become very stable and almost always just works. However, trying to do ...
Quick Rails 4 Blog Tutorial 30 Jun 2013 | 12:17 pm
Woops! That's the word that introduced many of us to Rails back in 2005 or so, and we've come a long way since then. What used to be a 15 minute demo of mostly adding fields manually to MySQL databa...
Rails 4: Mass Assignment 30 Jun 2013 | 12:15 pm
One of the many changes to Rails 4 has been the changes in mass assignment. Gone are they days you can throw form input at the model and let it sort it out, you must explicitly tell the controller wh...
What's New in Ruby on Rails 4 30 Jun 2013 | 12:11 pm
It's here! OK, technically it's been here for a long while in beta and release candidate form, but Ruby on Rails 4.0 is now officially released. This time around it's nothing like the jump to Rails ...
Quick Reference: Logger 30 Jun 2013 | 12:08 pm
While there are more comprehensive and powerful logging solutions for Ruby (such as log4r), Ruby does include a simple but capable logging interface in its standard library.
Unit Testing With MiniTest 1 Jun 2013 | 02:25 am
The default unit testing framework for Ruby as of Ruby 1.9.x is the very capable MiniTest. Read on to find out how to use it best to your advantage.
Unit Testing with MiniTest: Specs 31 May 2013 | 11:01 am
While assertions are just fine, MiniTest also provides an RSpec-like interface for doing spec statements. For example, instead of saying assert_empty a, you can simply say a.must_be_empty. While thi...
