Ruby
This is a category page about ruby and lists articles tagged with ruby.
Some blurb from the official website: A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
Articles on Ruby
BDD with elegance and joy
Cucumber is sold as Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy, according to their website. Ive not had the opportunity to use full BDD testing in my day job for some time, in fact probably never – my last foray into testing was probably JUnit in my Java days… so I know its about time I got up to speed with it.
Relaxing on the Couch
When deciding what database to use for my application rewrite, I went through a few options, including the usual options like MySQL, some hard options like triple stores (not a silly idea in itself, but just too much for this application) and then settled on CouchDB.
Sinatra has taken the stage
Ive been using Sinatra now for about six months all in, as I decided to learn more Ruby, and for sites that arent ‘big enough for Rails. Another reason for using Sinatra, was to deploy application on Google App Engine via JRuby and it was during this, that I decided that Sinatra wasnt just for small applications and I could rewrite my Scottish Football Archive site using it.
