Ruby Tricks

3 New Date and Time Libraries for Rubyists

In the UK there's a cliché that goes: "You wait hours for a bus, and then three come along at once!" So it went with these three Ruby date and time libraries. They all made an appearance on RubyFlow last week and are all useful in their own ways, depending on how you're working with dates and times.

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

Ruby Quicktips: A Tumblelog of Quick Ruby Tips

ruby-quicktips.pngRuby Quicktips is a Tumblr-powered tumblelog (think of a blog but in bite-sized chunks) by Daniel Pietzsch that presents a growing array of Ruby related tips and interesting code snippets. Daniel seems keen for you to contribute, and you can do so on its submissions page.

Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions At Once

multiple-rubys.pngRuby Version Manager GitHub repo (a.k.a.

Turbocharge Your Ruby Testing with Parallel Specs

bearonshark.pngIn Make Your Test Suite UNCOMFORTABLY FAST! (called "the best blog post ever written" by one commenter) Jason Morrison of Thoughtbot demonstrates how to use Michael Grosser's Parallel Specs project to speed up your

IRB: Let’s Bone Up On The Interactive Ruby Shell

irbism.pngThe Interactive Ruby Shell, more commonly known as IRB, is one of Ruby's most popular features, especially with new developers. You can bash out a one-liner, try a method you've just learned about, or even build a small algorithm or two without going the whole way to writing a complete program.

Announcing MIDIator

I was just looking at my FeedBurner statistics and noticed that my feed readership has gone up by approximately 100 in the past year. Then I looked at my blog and realized I hadn’t posted anything Ruby-related in 2008. Then I remembered that I’m a Ruby programmer and decided to release some software for the express purpose of blogging an announcement.

Okay, not really. Well. The last part is mostly a lie. I guess. On to the point.

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