Ruby and Rails

Practicing Ruby: A Newsletter by Gregory Brown

If you've been following the Ruby scene for a while you'll have heard of Gregory Brown. He's the author of O'Reilly's Ruby Best Practices, creator of the Prawn PDF library, and the head honcho of the Ruby Mendicant University.

A Look Into Ruby’s Object Model

A few days ago, Burke Libbey, a Winnipeg based Ruby and Rails developer, gave a presentation called Ruby's Object Model: Metaprogramming and Other Magic to the Winnipeg.rb Ruby user group. I though it was interesting enough to embed here.

March Madness!

Okay, so maybe madness is a strong word, but March is here, and Ruby and Rails events are back in full swing! We’ll be all over the globe talking Ruby, Rails, and for a special treat, Cloud Computing. If you’ll be in any of the areas we’re visiting, be sure to get in touch—we’d love to meet you!

MountainWest RubyConf

March 11-12 | Salt Lake City, UT

Building A Well Formed Number Handling Class From Scratch

Over on the Ruby Best Practices blog, somenums.pngRobert Klemme walks through the process of building a new numeric class from scratch in Ruby - taking into account all the gotchas and considerations that pop up

Showcasing RubyLearning’s Awesome Rubyists

Showcasing RubyLearning’s Awesome Rubyists

RubyLearning has been associated with some amazing, talented Rubyists these last 5 years. I am compiling a list (in alphabetical order) showcasing these awesome Rubyists who have either undergone some of the courses at RubyLearning or have been instrumental in taking RubyLearning to the next level.

11 New Ruby Delights (For If/When You’re Tired of Rails 3.0)

no-rails-allowed.gifSick of Rails 3.0 yet or still enjoying your Sinatra, Rango, Ramaze,

Brightbox sponsors NWRUG, 21st January, Manchester

I’m speaking at this month’s North West Ruby Group meeting about some of the tools available that can be used to solve common Ruby and Rails deployment and development problems. “UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel”.

Brightbox is also sponsoring the meeting so there will be free pizza afterwards (free as in pizza, not as in speech).

More details on the NWRUG blog page.

Hope to see you there!

#340 | “Ruby and Rails Ecosystem White Paper” in Category: Learning/Help/Support

»Synchronizing Core Data With Rails 3.0.0.pre«

Engine Yard Raises $19M for Expansion

I’m delighted to announce that Engine Yard has successfully raised an additional round of funding to continue the company’s expansion. In this latest round we raised nineteen million dollars with DAG Ventures leading the investment. We are also welcoming Bay Partners and Presidio Ventures as new investors. They join previous investors Benchmark, NEA and Amazon, who all returned to participate in the funding round.

Felipe Elias Philipp Winner RPCFN #1

In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Felipe Elias Philipp of Brazil, winner of the first-ever Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies.

Felipe Elias Philipp

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