Overt humor isn't usually Ruby Inside's thing, but it's the holiday season, so there's nothing wrong with kicking up your heels and having a little fun. Don't worry - this won't become a habit. Promise! After the fold, check out a chart showing how programming language fanboys (Ruby's included) see each other's respective languages.

This is a quick one.

Cucumber's recent version bump includes a new and improved html report generator (for textmate users, at least) borrowing javascript from rspec. That is to say, when you run your features it will be more like when you run your specs, progress bar and so on. I like that now it shows undefined step snippets in the textmate window in a usable form, that's a timesaver.

So Django has an interesting feature called “generic views”, which essentially allow you to to render a template with generic code. In Rails, the same feature would be called “generic actions” (just a terminology difference).

This was possible, but somewhat difficult in Rails 2.x, but it’s a breeze in Rails 3.

Let’s take a look at a simple generic view in Django, the “redirect_to” view:

Rails’ flash is a convenient way of passing objects (though mostly used for message strings) across http redirects. In fact, every time you set a flash parameter the very next step is often to perform your redirect w/ redirect_to:

Recently I was having problem to open pop up window in IE browsers. Although it works properly in all other browsers.
In IE , window is open on self window rather than another window.
Finally I found the error in my code, and that was window name problem.
I defined the window name with space (window name). It [...]

I just wanted to let you all know that ack, a better grep (and one of my favorite tools), is now hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/petdance/ack

Watch the project and start wondering how you ever lived without it.

When working on a project, contributors are constantly re-evaluating the pitch: “how do I explain to someone why what I’m doing is interesting?” The Rubinius team is no different. It’s back to school season for a lot of you, so I’ve arranged my thoughts into a tidy back to school metaphor, looking at Rubinius through the eyes of its college roommate.

1. We Take Out the Garbage

No one likes cleaning up after a messy roommate, navigating around piles of junk or restarting your app servers constantly because  memory use grows without bound.

As my family prepares for our pending Disney trip, I’m thinking about clever ways to take advantage of my wife’s iPhone. One of the things we’ve done is budget the trip based on a few simple categories of expenses. There’s a lot of ways to track expenses to budgets, but I’m particularly happy with how this worked out using Google Documents and the iPhone.

One of the nice things about the last two and a half years has been working from home. You avoid 90% of the dilbert-style office drama, and the commute is hard to beat. But the nicest thing about working from home is that, strictly speaking, I can work from any home, not just our little place.

So from July the 4th till the end of the year Anika and I will be living in Paris. You know, this paris:

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