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[...] to Program, but the content is my own. Getting Started with Ruby Welcome to Programming Computer programming is the skill that allows you to make computers do what you want. Computers are excellent [...]

[...] those objects. Today we’ll start by learning about variables, a key concept in computer programming. Afterwards, we’ll use variables to understand more about Ruby’s basic objects, [...]

[...] about to learn the means to do that, and we’ll start with a fundamental concept in computer programming: comparisons. Comparisons Many programs rely on comparisons of data to execute [...]

[...] of the general structure of the Internet that isn’t too technical. 2. Learn about computer programming Programming languages can be very different indeed; but at their heart, they’re just [...]

[...] . (Except the cache I guess…) With proper caching you can remove web servers, application servers, and database servers from your setup. In addition to scaling down our database instance, [...]

[...] longer than installing Ruby from a package, and I could just compile Ruby on the application servers and use the Ruby package on everything else. Ultimately I decided to keep compiled Ruby in [...]

[...] a commit, CircleCI will automatically SSH into your server and execute that event. Your application servers with the watches on them will run chef-client and pull down the latest code, automatically [...]

[...] Following parts one and two of my series on Rails concerns, I’m going to finish up with an extremely useful controller concern: automatically [...]

[...] Rails concerns are a fancy way of saying Ruby modules. 37signals uses concerns a lot in the new Basecamp, [...]

[...] For the second part of my series on Rails concerns (following part one earlier this week), I’ll be dissecting a tagging system and how to [...]

[...] the programmers I admire. More than knowledge of their chosen language, deep understanding of data structures and algorithms, or even more than years of on-the-job experience – the way they [...]

[...] of ‘zebra’ is ‘striped’, instead of ‘animal’. Finally, data structures can contain other data structures. Let’s add an array to our hash. Try dictionary[' [...]

[...] ? redis Redis gives you the benefits of a semi-persistent datastore with some really nice data structures. If you need lists, sets, or ordered sets – especially if these data structures are [...]

[...] syntax they’d like you to use, my advice is: don’t. If you ever want to use your chef recipes somewhere else — or bring chef recipes from elsewhere to OpsWorks — you’ll thank [...]

[...] of work in Amazon’s OpsWorks, in many ways an elegant service. Once you have a set of chef recipes provisioning properly, you’ll want to create an AMI for the layer in question so that [...]

[...] from doing nothing more than adding a git remote and pushing to it. No matter how good your Chef recipes are, it’ll take you at least fifteen minutes to get a bare EC2 instance provisioned from [...]

[...] all kinds of new mind-blowing awesomeness. So what are you waiting for? Get over to the Mac App store and buy Gistify! (Oh, and if you like the icon, it’s by the super amazing Luke Beard.) [...]

[...] the release of Gistify version 1.1.0. And after submitting only four days ago – man, the Mac App store moves incredibly fast compared to the iOS App Store! Anyhow, Gistify, the incredibly awesome [...]

[...] all kinds of new mind-blowing awesomeness. So what are you waiting for? Get over to the Mac App store and buy Gistify! (Oh, and if you like the icon, it’s by the super amazing Luke Beard.) [...]

[...] of Gistify version 1.1.0. And after submitting only four days ago — man, the Mac App store moves incredibly fast compared to the iOS App Store! Anyhow, Gistify, the incredibly [...]

[...] add in all the appropriate params from the session variables, and then call the Rails application with it. Rails believes that – despite the URL being redirect_back – we’ve made a [...]

[...] . I took a decrepit, slow PHP Drupal installation and turned it into a speedy, modernized Rails application. The new GirlsGuideTo uses some incredibly modern technologies to be fast, while still being [...]

[...] modules that smell suspiciously like controllers, except with inline routing. In an actual Rails application, this separate but similar structure is by tradition hidden in the lib/ directory, where [...]

[...] Hipstamatic’s Rails application is deployed to Amazon’s Elastic Cloud, and we make extensive use of Amazon’s Web [...]

[...] on elasticsearch, I promised I would elaborate on testing elasticsearch (and tire) in Rails applications. There’s not really a whole lot of secret sauce to it, but I figured it’d [...]

[...] . But then what happens when someone who’s not logged in presses the button? In most Rails applications, they’d be logged in, redirected back to the page they were referred from, and they’ [...]

[...] I spent awhile trying to find other people’s Chef cookbook collections for deploying Rails applications. In the absence of anything other than old GitHub repositories, I decided to write a quick [...]

[...] grape to do it in every time. Unfortunately that’s where the great stuff ends. For Rails applications – assuming you actually want to use grape with Rails – it is really an unpleasant [...]

[...] sources. But hopefully this guide will help someone else integrate ShareKit into their RubyMotion project quickly and easily. I sure wish I had known all this earlier this morning! [...]

[...] is the main problem with RubyMotion, but it disguises a host of smaller issues with the RubyMotion project and community that’s grown up around it. RubyMotion, for those who don’t know, [...]

[...] the changes the HipByte team has been making and what they mean for the future of the RubyMotion project. The issues Laurent prioritized have done much to restore my confidence in using RubyMotion [...]

[...] out to be fun and profitable, but also exhausting; I’m engaged in another RubyMotion project that has taken up most of the free time I used to dedicate to this blog. Still, I [...]