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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…

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Technologies Videos May 11, 2015

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…

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Announcements Videos September 24, 2014

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,…

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Technologies Videos August 26, 2014

Rake Part 2: File Lists

How to pick out all the files we want, and none we don’t, using Rake’s FileList class.

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Technologies Videos June 25, 2014

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…

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Technologies Videos April 30, 2014

Rake Part 7: MultiTask

Parallelizing Rake tasks for efficiency

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Technologies Videos April 29, 2014

Rake Part 6: Clean and Clobber

How to keep project directories squeaky clean using Rake.

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Technologies Videos April 28, 2014

Rake Part 5: File Operations

Creating and removing files and directories in Rake.

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Technologies Videos April 25, 2014

Rake Part 4: Pathmap

Continuing our series on Rake, today we look at one of its most powerful (and little-known!) features

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Technologies Videos April 24, 2014

Rake Part 3: Rules

In this episode, we teach Rake how to intelligently discover the right source file for a given target.

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Technologies Videos April 23, 2014
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