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…
Rake Part 4: Pathmap
Continuing our series on Rake, today we look at one of its most powerful (and little-known!) features
Rake Part 3: Rules
In this episode, we teach Rake how to intelligently discover the right source file for a given target.