The other week we took a look at importing data quickly into Ruby on Rails applications and saw how activerecord-import can speed up importing large sets[..]

Application frameworks often provide their own out of the box services for interacting with databases. This works great when processing data in a[..]

Writing an interactive command line tool using non-blocking IO opens doors that tools using blocking IO can only dream of. Your program no longer has to[..]

Work Locally

Working locally means that you have an instance of your web app running on your machine. You edit files directly on your machine, rather than[..]

If you hang around the Ruby community for long enough, you'll undoubtly hear talk about the the dreaded Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). The GIL is a[..]

With Ruby 1.9.3 nearing here's a casual look at some of the upcoming changes in 1.9.3rc1.

Last week I was working on localizations for a Ruby on Rails project. Rails provides a simple way to add internationalization to your project. But what[..]

I was happy to see on the twitter-sphere that The RSpec Book was reviewed over on Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper. If you didn’t know, I was one of the[..]

I often run into situations where I'm working with something that's essentially a number, but I want it to behave just a little differently. For example,[..]