Stevey’s Home Page – A Quick Tour of Ruby
Ruby used to annoy me simply by existing. I first heard about Ruby years ago, in maybe 1997 or 1998, and folks said it was kind of like Perl, but “cleaner”, whatever that meant. Ruby fans back then seemed like a tiny minority of rebels and [...]
Strange new worlds, and programming languages…: Good bye Microsoft; Pete has now left the building!
In 1991, I installed Windows 3 on my desktop PC at work. Work at the time was indentured servitude at a construction company in my home town where they massively underpaid a naïve but talented guy (me) a measly 4 grand [...]
Gamer cracks code, finds jewel | Chicago Tribune
With clean-cut looks, a steely-eyed stare and 25,000 lines of computer code, the Chicagoan has been catapulted from his humble roots as a computer gamer to the forefront of the geek-o-sphere, earning the title of “Hottest Hacker on Earth” and landing on the cover of Linux Journal.
Among the [...]
Ruby on Rails
Rails 1.1 is out for anyone who cares.
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, [...]
try ruby! (in your browser)
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Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!
This tutorial is only partway complete and is still very experimental! If nothing works, uh… come back in a few days? Thankyou!
Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in [...]
I’ve spent a few weeks now looking at the Ruby on Rails open-source web framework.
Ruby in itself has existed for about 10 years. It is an intuitive language that is pretty easy to learn. It’s often possible to guess at how something new should work and be right.
Ruby on Rails is a web [...]
