Archive for the ‘Ruby’ Tag
Introducing GMoney – A RubyGem for Interacting with the Google Finance API
February 1, 2010 – 1:00 amUpdate March 03, 2010:Due to changes in the Google Finance API only GMoney gem versions >= 0.4.3 are working. If you run gem update gmoney to get the latest version or install the gem from scratch you will be fine. Let's pretend the year is 2007 and I have ...
Giving Design Patterns a Second Chance: Ruby Edition
July 1, 2009 – 8:00 pmI have a confession to make. You know that really popular design patterns book that most software developers (especially in the Java world) claim to have read? You know the one I'm talking about. The one written by the "Gang of Four". The one you were supposed to have ...
Ruby Screen Scraping with scRUBYt!
April 27, 2009 – 6:00 amI am currently in the market to buy my first home so I've been spending a lot of time on various real estate websites searching through listings trying to find the perfect property. I live in a competitive housing market so it is important that I am informed whenever ...
Ruby Nation: Day 2 Wrap Up
August 3, 2008 – 6:49 pmOpening Keynote - Rich Kilmer Rich Kilmer's opening keynote was by far the best presentation of the day. Rich is an incredibly experienced and skilled Ruby developer who was one of the earlier adopters of the language. During his keynote, Rich walked through his experiences with Ruby dating all ...
Ruby Nation: Day 1 Wrap Up
August 1, 2008 – 11:59 amRuby experts and enthusiasts from around the country met in Washington, D.C. today for the first annual RubyNation conference. I always think it's awesome to get together with industry leaders to absorb and share new information and insights. I've been to quite a few tech conferences in the ...
Putting Google Finance to REST with Ruby
July 23, 2008 – 2:43 amRubyNation is just a week and a half away and in order to prepare myself I thought I'd brush up on some Ruby and Rails in the days preceding the conference. I don't use Ruby on a regular basis, but I'm a huge fan of dynamic languages so I'm ...
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