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…
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…
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…
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,…
How to pick out all the files we want, and none we don’t, using Rake’s FileList class.
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…
How to keep project directories squeaky clean using Rake.
Creating and removing files and directories in Rake.
Continuing our series on Rake, today we look at one of its most powerful (and little-known!) features
In this episode, we teach Rake how to intelligently discover the right source file for a given target.