Sit in like a fly on the wall, while Jim Weirich and Joe O'Brien walk through a code review with the customer, Chris Nelson. The team has uncovered so...

The Ruby Mendicant project was at first meant as a joke. Who would be crazy enough to donate money to an individual developer to work on unspecified ...

Ruby 1.9.0 came out in December, but it will be a while before it is stable and major packages have been ported to it. In addition to new features, the...

Code serves two purposes: the first is to instruct the computer to do something, of course, but the second is to communicate your intentions with othe...

In this talk I will present a task application framework called Tap. Tap on the surface acts like a supercharged rake, with similar declaration syntax...

This talk is about the many paths towards getting ruby running in your web browser. I'll first talk about why this is even a good idea. I'll then talk...

Building Domain Specific Languages in Ruby shows the power and flexibility of the language. This talk covers some advanced DSL techniques in Ruby, inc...

HotCocoa is a thin, idiomatic Ruby layer that sits above Cocoa and other frameworks. HotCocoa will be included with MacRuby when it ships in future ve...

This year, I co-organised Scotland on Rails ( http://scotlandonrails.com/ ) - the first regional Ruby/Rails conference in the UK. We attracted around ...

All respectable software craftsmen make efforts to keep their coding claws sharp. And solely working 9-5 on business applications will dull one's whit...

All Rubyists know that in its current state, Ruby is slow. And our usual answer to critics is "it's fast enough." But there's no reason Ruby can't be ...

A war is being waged between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The imperial forces are laboring tirelessly to stamp out such dangerous ideas as late-...