--- title: | Ruby description: Ruby | --- [Home](https://mutuallyhuman-pr-605.herokuapp.com/) - [Team](https://mutuallyhuman-pr-605.herokuapp.com/team) - [Work](https://mutuallyhuman-pr-605.herokuapp.com/work) - [Blog](https://mutuallyhuman-pr-605.herokuapp.com/blog) - [Contact](https://mutuallyhuman-pr-605.herokuapp.com/contacts) [Searchable Archive](https://mutuallyhuman-pr-605.herokuapp.com/blog/archive) ## [Writing on the Wall: Custom Whiteboards for Your Office](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2012/06/07/writing-on-the-wall-custom-whiteboards-for-your-office) Back in September we outfitted out or office with walls full of long-awaited whiteboards. [Whiteboards are great for brainstorming](http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/11/how-to-run-a-brainstorming-session.html), and they make it easier\[..\] Mark Van Holstyn ## [Importing data and handling conflicts in Ruby on Rails applications](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2016/08/19/importing-data-and-handling-conflicts-in-ruby-on-rails-applications) The other week we took a look at [importing data quickly into Ruby on Rails applications](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/blog/2016/06/28/importing-data-quickly-in-ruby-on-rails-applications) and saw how [activerecord-import](https://www.github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import) can speed up importing large sets\[..\] Zach Dennis ## [Importing data quickly in Ruby on Rails applications](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2016/06/28/importing-data-quickly-in-ruby-on-rails-applications) Application frameworks often provide their own out of the box services for interacting with databases. This works great when processing data in a\[..\] Zach Dennis ## [From Blocking REPLs to Non-blocking REPLs](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2016/01/15/from-blocking-repls-to-non-blocking-repls) 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\[..\] Zach Dennis ## [Tips for Novice Developers (and why you should become a rubyist)](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2013/08/06/tips-for-novice-developers-and-why-you-should-become-a-rubyist) ## 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\[..\]* Ross Hunter ## [Speeding Things Up With jRuby](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2012/11/26/speeding-things-up-with-jruby) 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\[..\] Jack Slingerland ## [A casual look at upcoming changes in Ruby 1.9.3](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2011/09/28/a-casual-look-at-upcoming-changes-in-ruby-1-9-3) With Ruby 1.9.3 nearing here's a casual look at some of the upcoming changes in 1.9.3rc1. Zach Dennis ## [Scout App 0.5.0 Released](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2011/08/15/scout-app-0-5-0-released) Zach Dennis ## [Somebody Set Us Up the BOM](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2011/08/08/somebody-set-us-up-the-bom) Last week I was working on localizations for a Ruby on Rails project. Rails provides a simple way to add [internationalization](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html) to your project. But what\[..\] Chris Rittersdorf ## [The RSpec Book Gets Reviewed](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2011/03/22/the-rspec-book-gets-reviewed) 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\[..\] Zach Dennis ## [Class Coercion in Ruby](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/blog/2011/01/25/class-coercion-in-ruby) 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,\[..\] Zach Church [More Articles](https://resources.mutuallyhuman.com/test/topic/ruby/page/2) ### About Mutually Human Mutually Human is a custom software design and development consultancy specializing in mobile and web-based products and services. 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