I hate to break it to you, guys, but Ruby is old enough to drink. What started out as a small community full of fun, silliness, and connection has been growing. Our small codebases are now large. Our small companies are now large. And the large companies have finally figured …
The ruby standard library is full of great code. It’s also full of dragons. This presentations shows you some of fun parts, parts that you may not be using and may not even know about. It shows you that you don’t have to install everything on GitHub to build your …
There’s no shortage of choice when it comes to application servers for Ruby/Rack apps. This talk will explain some of the differences between several options, explore configuration required to get them running, and attempt to benchmark performance of a simple application running behind each.
Are you curious about Ruby? Perhaps you’ve heard fantastic things about how Ruby makes you 100 times more productive. Or maybe you’ve heard the hype about this fantastic web framework called Rails that allows to you build your complete app in 5 minutes during a coffee break. And all this …
Two completely different ways have emerged for using Ruby on Rails as the back end to a rich client-side JavaScript application.
So you consider yourself an Object Oriented (OO) developer? Ruby isn’t limited to an OO style! See what functional programming can do for us, without learning any new language. These six principles of functional style apply in OO code.
