So what’s the deal with Ruby refinements, anyway?
If you’ve been following Ruby developments for the past couple of years, chances are you’ve heard about refinements. You may have heard that they are controversial, confusing, or even “broken”….
New RubyTapas Freebie: Immutable Iterators with Tom Stuart
Tom Stuart expands my mind every time I read or watch something he’s done, so I can’t tell you how excited I was to have him do guest episode on RubyTapas….
Breaking open toys in Smalltalk
For a lot of people, having to work inside the “walled garden” of a VM, with its own GUI and everything, is one of the biggest barriers to learning Smalltalk. Today I…
In which I make you hate Ruby in 7 minutes
Per the roadmap I laid out the other day, I’m making a concerted effort to work on my meager Smalltalk knowledge. One of the best ways to cement knowledge is…
Two years of RubyTapas (free episode!)
It took a tweet from Noel Rappin to remind me, but it seems that today marks two years since the first episode of RubyTapas went live. I started RubyTapas with…
How to use Ruby’s English and/or operators without going nuts
Years ago I wrote about Ruby’s English and/or operators and why they are the way they are. I’ve never been completely happy with how I made my case in that article,…
Rake Part 2: File Lists
How to pick out all the files we want, and none we don’t, using Rake’s FileList class.
Learn advanced Rake in 7 episodes
Rake is ubiquitous in Ruby-land, but its power is often under-appreciated and under-used. Over the course of the past two weeks I’ve been posting a series of RubyTapas videos I…