In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Andrew Boekhoff, author of CongoMongo, a toolkit for using MongoDB with Clojure. Satish>> Welcome Andrew and thanks for taking out ...

Ruby Quicktips: Grep anything from your Enumerables: grep is a nice little method to select elements from an Enumerable that match a certain pattern. For example, you can look for string- or regular e...

The Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (a.k.a. railstutorial.org) by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps. Michael has put together a great ...

Among the great people we met at the RailsConf was George Guimarães (@georgeguimaraes), by no surprise he was a very cool and funny dude, and he was open to talk and hang around with us. George i...

Apply to be interviewed for the upcoming book Standup And Learn: Lessons For Real Life Agile, a compilation of lessons from those that have implemented Agile Other Posts That Might Interest YouGoing...

If you have ever sent emails using ActionMailer during a user request you probably noticed that if the email sending fails or takes too long your user might not be really happy with the speed of your ...

Hi all! It’s been a while since I have posted as I have been on holidays and have been rather lazy! This post is going to explain the arduous task of deploying your Ruby on Rails application in as m...

We wondered why our specs were NOT failing even we hadn’t removed all returnings and replaced them by tap in our current Rails 3 rc2 project. The solution was that the faker, the fake data generatio...

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Megérkezett az első release candidate, ami azt jelenti, hogy hamarosan megjelenik a végleges Rails 3. Csak győzzük kivárni:) A kiadás 842 új commitot tartalmaz a legutóbbi béta kiadás ó...

A while back we decided to use a Kerberos authentication system at work. This is not only a superior approach to directly storing passwords in your users table (for various reasons I won't go into her...

It isn't often that you can pull a near 48 hour day dealing with deploying a new code base into production and come out of it with not only a smile but a blog post praising your hosting company.  I j...

In The Joy of Clojure (TJoC) destructuring is described as a mini-language within Clojure. It's not essential to learn this mini-language; however, as the authors of TJoC point out, destructuring faci...

As well as being gift ideas experts, we also cater to many designers here at Bags Of Love. Because we are a printing company online that have such a wide range of products available to customise, we c...

As some of you remember a while ago our super-talented Ruby on Rails Team made a Ruby LipDub. We had loads of fun while shooting it and have a ton of behind-the-scenes material. Now, it’s the time...

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Este post es para Simón. El otro día mientras le dábamos clase en el Master de Software Libre nos dijo que últimamente no escribíamos mucho. Acto seguido le prometimos un post dedicado. Seguro ...

WARNING: Could not find a good alternative for performing time outs — connecting to Redis will not time out. Try installing the SystemTimer gem. rake aborted! undefined method `get’ for nil:NilCla...

Enterprise. Even saying the word can send shivers down the spine of the ‘enlightened’ developer. It can conjure up thoughts of gargantuan XML configuration files tied down with lashings of buzz,...