Category Archives: Ruby

Posts about the Ruby programming language and its eclectic, fun user community.

§ On the Edge of Camping: OpenID and Perl Ports

I write a report on the latest things happening in the world of Camping, a Ruby Web micro-framework.

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§ Thoughts about Rails and the Enterprise

I know, I know. I said the E word. But bear with me. I’m working with some code right now that, while well-written for the most part, still is written in ASP.NET, and makes me wonder if its levels of intricacies can be managed in Rails. Some of the particular obstacles that would require tackling [...]

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§ Extending Ruby’s RSS Parser

A fun, Ruby-hackery post about extending the built-in RSS feed parser to deal with custom namespaces and such.

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§ Uproar Gits

Uproar has made its home at GitHub. The project is ripe for the taking, and there’s a vague Roadmap in the wiki, for the things I want to do with it. I’ll be hopefully making some updates to it this week. Enjoy!

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§ Custom Rails Validations

I’ve been having some trouble getting custom rails validations to work after reading Peter Marklund’s post on the topic. I finally have a configuration that works, and I’m posting it up here because

I’ve read some random posts and threads about problems with this, and Because randomly this configuration seems to stop working for me.

So here [...]

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