EventMachine has competition
Cool.io is an alternative to EventMachine, albeit one which using Ruby’s own native I/O primitives rather than reinventing them, and does as much as possible in Ruby instead of C,…
A Rack-like library for HTTP Clients
Faraday is an HTTP client library inspired by Rack. Requests and Responses go through middleware which allow for abstraction and modular code. via Writing modular HTTP client code with Faraday…
RVM Proxies for Common Commands? (Solved)
I posted this in IRC earlier but I thought I’d ask a larger audience: (01:39:01 PM) avdi: So here’s my problem (01:39:55 PM) avdi: My emacs is set up to…
Counters for Partials
Sometimes I like to number rows using a counter when rendering lists of things: <% @products.each_with_index do |product, i| %> <li class=”product_<%= i %>”><%= product.name %></li> <% end %> They…
The Ruby Stdlib is a Messy Workshop
Mike picks out Net::HTTP as his prime example saying Its performance and API are just terrible but does not back his performance claims with any benchmarks and does not back…
SpiderOak Review
Dan Mayer asked about my experience with SpiderOak backup. I realized if I was going to type up my thoughts I might as well post them where others could benefit…
Open Source GUI Prototyping? Sign me up!
The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. via Home – Pencil Project.
Checking the existence of a super method in Ruby
Ruby gives methods the ability to call up to the superclass definition of themselves. Or it may not be a parent class definition; it might call up to a definition…
Determining Singleton Class Status in Ruby
Q: How do you tell if a given class is an ordinary class or a singleton class? A: Test whether the class is the first element in its own ancestor…
Do you use a Real Editor?
I’m not going to tell you which editor you should use (Emacs). I’m not trying to feed the editor wars (Emacs 4evar!!!!1!!). I do think that every programmer that cares…