Ruby: Web Articles

• WOW! Very Huge List of UpComing Ruby/Rails Books in 2008
  
  Like the title says, this is an amazingly long list of Ruby books coming up in the second half of 2008.
• June 2008 Ruby Security Advisory: A Summary
  Peter Cooper
  
• Patch your rubies
  Steven Bristol
  How to apply back-ported security patches to Ruby 1.8.6 p111 so Rails still works.
• acts_as_ferret not working at all
  casual
  Work-around for using STI with acts_as_ferret and ferret Gem
• Ruby 1.8.7 Released: Enumeration Object Support Backported From 1.9
  Peter Cooper
  
• Ruby 1.8.7 has been released
  
  
• RAD: Ruby Arduino Development
  
  Ruby development environment for Arduino microcontroller.
• Rails on Rubinius << evan.musing << current
  Evan Phoenix
  Announcement of Rubinius running Rails for the first time.
• What's New in Edge Rails: Gem Dependencies
  Ryan Daigle
  
• 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
  Peter Cooper
  
• Rubinius On Rails: Rubinius Becomes 3rd Ruby Implementation to Run Rails
  
  
• Using git submodules to track plugins
  Graeme Mathieson
  
• Zero to a Fully Git Enabled Rails App in the time it takes to drink an espresso
  Rob Sanheim
  
• Merbunity
  
  News, projects and tutorials devoted to the Merb web framework.
• Ruby References
  
  
• RubyCocoa Resources
  
  Tutorials, articles, and how-to repository for all things RubyCocoa.
• Logging in Ruby on Rails
  Marty Andrews
  Brief intro to Ruby on Rails logging, and how to switch from the default logger to log4r.
• Data Noise: Tutorial on ruby-debug
  
  An introduction about ruby-debug and its basic operation from the command line.
• Chad's Blog - ruby-debug in 30 seconds (we don't need no stinkin' GUI!)
  Chad Woolley
  A very condensed how-to use ruby-debug from the command line.
• Netbeans 6.0, Leopard and "fast debug"
  
  Briefly describes how to get Netbeans 6 to work with the native install of Ruby and Rails on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). In particular, provides important hint on pointing to the GEM installation path.
• Ruby 1.9 released
  
  
• The mechanically verified Ruby 1.9 changelog
  
  
• Classic Ruby losing Against IronRuby
  
  
• Ruby 1.9 Is Released!
  Peter Cooper
  
• Ruby 1.9--Right for You?
  Dave Thomas
  
• rcov: code coverage for Ruby
  eigenclass
  Overview and discussion of rcov, the Ruby code coverage analysis tool. rcov can be useful for testing, optimizing and understanding Ruby programs. Available as a gem or installable from source.
• Sake Bomb!
  PJ Hyett and Chris Wanstrath
  Using rake system wide with the sake gem. Also includes a variety of useful rake tasks.
• Debug Your Rails App With ruby-debug
  Patrick Lenz
  Using ruby-debug
• Understanding Ruby blocks, Procs and methods
  Eli Bendersky
  
• Ruby Study Notes
  
  
• The Rails Way: More Idiomatic Ruby
  Michael Koziarksi
  
• The Rails Way: Idiomatic Ruby
  Jamis Buck
  
• Vendor Everything
  Chris Wanstrath
  Explains how to use gem unpack to put all your gems into the vendor directory, so other developers and your test and production servers are sure to have the same gems.
• 19 Tricks Most Rails Coders Don't Know
  Peter Cooper
  Great collection of Ruby coding tips for Rails developers.