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RubyDrop: A Dropbox Clone in Ruby

Ever used Dropbox? It's awesome. A cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, and even mobile) file syncing and backup service with 2GB for free (or 2.25GB if you sign up with this link).

Chronic 0.3.0 Released: Improved Natural Language Date/Time Parsing

Tom Preston-Werner has pushed out version 0.3.0 of Chronic, the popular natural language date and time parsing library for Ruby. It's a significant release because the last was 0.2.3 back in July 2007! Grab it now with gem install chronic

Writing Parsers in Ruby using Treetop

Treetop is one of the most underrated, yet powerful, Ruby libraries out there. If you want to write a parser, it kicks ass. The only problem is unless you're into reading up about and playing with parsers, it's not always obvious how to get going with them, or Treetop in particular.

Book Promotion: The Joy of Clojure

Book Promotion: The Joy of Clojure
RubyLearning is pleased to announce the promotion of the book “The Joy of Clojure” by author Michael Fogus and Chris Houser. The general idea of a book promotion is that it gives the participants a chance to ask relevant questions, interact with the author of the book and in the process possibly win a copy of the book, all for free!

Paul Barry Winner RPCFN #8

In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Paul Barry of USA, winner of the eighth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies.

RPCFN: Interactive Fiction (#9)

A Free Course on Sinatra

A Free Course on Sinatra
To celebrate the release of Sinatra 1.0 RubyLearning announces the first-ever, free online “Introduction to Sinatra” course starting from 15th May 2010.
Sinatra – quickly create tiny web apps and services

What’s Sinatra?
Sinatra is a micro-framework for quickly creating tiny web-applications and small services in Ruby. It is not a Model-View-Controller (MVC) based framework.

Dragonfly: Image Handling For Champions

Dragonfly is a new(-ish!) ruby gem for handling images and other content in Ruby web apps (including Rails). “What – another one?!”.. I hear you exclaim.

Michael Fogus talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Michael Fogus talks to the Clojure 101 course participants on Clojure.

Use the Cucumber

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your application.

In this hour and ten minute screencast, you’ll learn the basics of Cucumber. You’ll learn the syntax, organization, and philosophy of writing Features, Scenarios, and Steps. You’ll build an application and learn where unit tests are a better fit.

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