Compilations

Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby

rwind.pngAs 2010 comes to a close, I've dug through Ruby Inside archives to remind myself how far the Ruby scene has progressed over the year. Over the past couple of years, it's been hinted that the pace of developments in the Ruby world is slowing down, but nothing could have been further from the truth in 2010 (well, except in September..)

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Interesting Ruby Tidbits #32: DataMapper, Screencasts, IP Addresses, Euruko 2010 and more

The latest installment of my series of roundup posts, covering some of my latest findings in the world of all things Ruby. Why two "tidbits" posts in a row? Well, I'm radically redesigning/reworking Ruby Inside to be more interesting, both to you and me. This coupled with work on my new startup coder.io have reduced my available time a lot but, rest assured, everything will be crazy on Ruby Inside again within a week or so :-)

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Interesting Ruby and Rails Tidbits #31

The latest installment of our series of roundup posts, covering some of our latest findings in the world of all things Ruby (or not). These items wouldn't make it in as separate posts, but they should be of enough interest to Rubyists generally to make it a worthwhile browse for most readers.

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3 New Date and Time Libraries for Rubyists

In the UK there's a cliché that goes: "You wait hours for a bus, and then three come along at once!" So it went with these three Ruby date and time libraries. They all made an appearance on RubyFlow last week and are all useful in their own ways, depending on how you're working with dates and times.

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