Rubyology

Rubyology 101: Adhearsion 2.0

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:50:22 +0000

Chris Matthieu caught up with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of MojoLingo to discuss the new release of Adhearsion 2.0, the Ruby framework for building telephony apps on Asterisk and PRISM.

Rubyology 100: Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld re AdhearsionConf

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:43:14 +0000

Today, I spoke with Ben Klang and Ben Langfeld of Mojo Lingo about Adhearsion and the upcoming AdhearsionConf in San Francisco 10/8 and 10/9.

We also talked about new technology coming to Adhearsion including: Rayo, the new real-time protocol developed by Voxeo Labs, and Punchblock, the new rack-like Ruby middleware for telephony apps.

Rubyology 99: Steven Bristol (Madison RubyConf)

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:21:47 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Steven Bristol from LessEverything to chat about his upcoming involvement at the Madison Ruby Conference, 8/18/2011 - 8/20/2011.

Steven will be moderating two panels:

1. Software as a Service (Note: I'll be on that panel)
2. Software Testing

Steven is a real cool and accomplished guy but don't tell him that because it will go to his head :)

Rubyology 98: Jessie Shternshus (Madison RubyConf)

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:38:36 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Jessie Shternshus to chat about her upcoming involvement at the Madison Ruby Conference, 8/18/2011 - 8/20/2011.

As founder and owner of The IMPROV EFFECT, Jessie weds her lifelong passion for, and expertise in, improvisational acting with the fast paced demands of the corporate world. In her classes and workshops she helps people become better listeners, team players, leaders, and communicators. Her physically engaging and playful workshops are relevant to all fields of life; participants of her workshops vary from college professors to engineers and from web developers to lawyers.

Jessie will be helping the conference get started on the right foot with a social flare and will be giving tips throughout the conference on how to give an awesome Lightning Talk!

"I will give you some tips on how to do a Kick Ass Lightning round talk by using the theories of improvisation. You will get a chance to practice your new skills and hear some feedback. Learn how to get your point across in a clear and confident way. Understand how to make your message stick. Be aware of the signals you are sending to your audience."

Rubyology: 97 Jim Freeze and John Dyer (Lonestar Rubyconf V)

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:17:01 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Jim Freeze, the LSRC organizer, and John Dyer, one of Tropo's System Engineers and Developer Evangelists.

Get ready for an awesome two-track Ruby conference with an all-star presenter cast starting tomorrow (8/11) in Austin, Tx - The LoneStar RubyConf! This is @LSRC's fifth consecutive year so these guys really know how to throw a conference.

John Dyer will be onsite representing Tropo, the leading cloud and VoIP communications company. He will be running a hackathon for developing cool apps using either the Tropo Voice and SMS API or the Phono VoIP web phone or the SMSified API. Tropo will be giving away Production credits as well as a Parrot AR Drone (iPhone controlled quatra-copter)! Good luck everyone!

Rubyology 96: Brian Hogan (Madison Ruby Conf)

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:38:27 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Brian P. Hogan to chat about his upcoming talk at the Madison Ruby Conference, 8/18/2011 - 8/20/2011.

Brian's talk is entitled, "Creating RubyGems from Scratch".

If you've ever looked into how to create Gems, you've probably seen a bunch of ways to do that. Project generators like Hoe, Jeweler, and the like offer some nice ways to get started, but they may often be overkill for many projects. If you're just starting out, why not learn to do it from scratch? In this talk, we'll create our own gem from scratch, using only things that are provided by Ruby, its standard library, and RubyGems to craft a simple gem. You'll learn how to set up a project, how to write and run tests, how to use Rake to quickly build the gem, and even how to create a gem that installs an executable command-line program.

Rubyology 95: Madison Ruby Conference

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:01:10 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Jim Remsik (AKA Big Tiger) to discuss the upcoming Madison Ruby Conference! The conference includes a 1 day workshop on 8/18/2011 followed by a 2 day, 2 track line-up of amazing speakers.

Stay tuned for the latest conference news by following @MadisonRuby on Twitter!

rubyology 94: PrivatelyApp

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:53:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Les Hill from HashRocket to talk about his new Twitter application called PrivatelyApp. Privately lets you initiate private conversations from Twitter like a Group DM.

Les and I even coordinated this interview using Privately. It's simple to use and it just works great!

Privately is still in closed beta but the first 50 Rubyology listeners to sign-up will get in. Ready-set-GO! Click the setup link for early access to the site!

Rubyology 93: SunnyConf - Luigi Montanez Interview

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:22:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Luigi Montanez to learn more about his upcoming SunnyConf talk about Civic Coding!

If you have been watching the Open Government or Gov2.0 space and looking to get involved in an opensource civic API-based application, you're going to want to catch this interview and Luigi's talk in person!

Don't miss your chance to catch Luigi's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. You can register now at http://sunnyconf.eventbrite.com!

Rubyology 92: SunnyConf - Dave Keener Interview

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:20:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Dave Keener to learn more about his upcoming SunnyConf talk about adding Facebook to Rails!

If you have been interested in adding Facebook Connect and other Facebook features to your Rails applications, this is a must-see presentation!

Don't miss your chance to catch Dave's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. You can register now at http://sunnyconf.eventbrite.com!

Rubyology 91: SunnyConf - Brian Bommarito Interview

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:11:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu sat down with Brian Bommarito to learn more about his upcoming SunnyConf talk about testing and continuous integration!

If you have been interested in getting started with continuous integration, this is the talk to catch! Brian is planning to demonstrate how it works and how to setup your very own CI environment. He makes it sound so simple!

Don't miss your chance to catch Brian's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. You can register now at http://sunnyconf.eventbrite.com!

Rubyology 90: SunnyConf - Andre Arko Interview

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:02:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu interviews Andre Arko regarding his upcoming SunnyConf talk on Bundler.

In addition to contributing as a core team member on Bundler, Andre has been instrumental in adding value to Rails 3 through updates to HAML and JQuery Rails.

Don't miss your chance to catch Andre's talk in person at SunnyConf on 9/25/2010. Seats are limited and they are running out fast. You can register now at http://sunnyconf.eventbrite.com!

Rubyology 89: SunnyConf - Alex Sharp Interview

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:31:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu recently interviewed Alex Sharp about his upcoming talk on Refactoring at SunnyConf, Arizona's first Rails Conference.

Alex is passionate about refactoring Rails code and has many great techniques to demonstrate ways to simply this important task. Remember: It's better to leave code better than you found it.

Register to today for SunnyConf (9/25/2010) before all of the tickets are gone! It's only $100 for a whole day of talks and hack sessions and a free breakfast!

Rubyology 88: SunnyConf - Charlie Nutter Interview

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu and Jason Goecke interview Charlie Nutter of JRuby fame about his upcoming talk at SunnyConf, Arizona's first Rails Conference!

Get your sneak preview of some of the topics that Charlie will be discussing including JRuby on Google AppEngine and in the enterprise as well as the new JRuby framework for Android devices called Ruboto!

Register to today for SunnyConf (9/25/2010) before all of the tickets are gone! It's only $100 for a whole day of talks and hack sessions and a free breakfast!

Rubyology 87: SunnyConf - HashRocket Interview

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:29:00 +0000

Get your tickets to Phoenix, Arizona's first Rails conference, SunnyConf!

Rubyology is the offical podcast of SunnyConf and we are getting an early look into the conference and we are starting with interviewing each of the speakers!

In this episode, we get to interview Les Hill and Jim Remsik from HashRocket about their upcoming talk - Sustainably Awesome: How to Build a Team.

Hashrocket began as a small four person shop aiming to build products and get rich doing the same. Something happened along the way and we wound up with a small principled consultancy that works hard and plays harder. Listen in as we share how we keep the culture, quality, and cohesive bond that makes Rocketeers love working for Hashrocket.

Their SunnyConf talk will cover hiring, communications, methodology, environment, culture, and community. I hope that you enjoy this episode!

Rubyology 86: Adhearsion

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:18:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu interviews John Higgins from Voxeo Labs and Ben Klang from Verendus about Adhearsion and AdhearsionConf.

Adhearsion is the first fully-featured open source Ruby framework for Asterisk and an easy way to write voice-enabled applications. In the age of the social web, what other technologies are more social than voice? Adhearsion empowers your code to handle and route inbound and outbound phone, VoIP, and Skype calls automatically, just like it handles normal web traffic.

John is coordinating the 2010 AdhearsionConf scheduled for August 14th and 15th in San Francisco, CA. More information can be found at http://adhearsionconf.eventbrite.com/

Ben is one of the core developers of the Adhearsion project. He talks about the framework, deployments, features included in the recent gem release and new enhancements in the pipeline.

The video to the Bloc Jam Mutek project discussed on the show can be found at http://vimeo.com/12416115

If you haven't tried out Adhearsion by now, you really should! Check it out at http://adhearsion.com

Rubyology 85: Teleku, cloud telecom

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:06:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu introduces his new cloud-based telecom start-up written in Ruby on Rails called Teleku.com! Teleku is a new cloud-based telecom service that allows Web developers to build and host phone applications that answer inbound calls and initiate outbound calls, interact with Web applications, and send/receive SMS text messages! Using simple XML and JSON responses in your HTTP Web pages, you can deliver sophisticated interactive voice response (IVR) telephony applications in as little as 5 minutes! The Teleku platform runs phone applications written in PhoneMLÂ®, Twilioâ€™sÂ® TwiMLÂ®, and traditional VoiceXML. You can even mix XML libraries on a Web service call-by-call basis and chain voice applets together using one or all of the three libraries. Teleku natively uses Phone Markup Language (PhoneML) to build powerful phone applications quickly and easily. PhoneML can be viewed as a modern and more simple approach to building XML/JSON-based telephony applications. PhoneML is a set of RESTful XML/JSON commands that allow developers to build simple yet sophisticated phone applications using any Web programming language. We mask the complexities of building a traditional voice application by providing you with a easy Web Service API that handles the complex telco services and even Speech Recognition (ASR) grammar development. Telekuâ€™s API does not require you to purchase an SDK or download software but rather provides free RESTful Web Services that allow your Web applications to receive telephone, Skype, and SIP calls to interact with callers over the telephone like traditional Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems by playing MP3, WAV, or VOX media files, speaking text-to-speech (TTS) prompts, collecting digits and spoken commands through speech recognition (ASR), recording audio, dialing numbers, transferring calls, etc. Teleku is hosted in the cloud (specifically Amazonâ€™s EC2 platform) allowing us to scale your phone application from one to thousands of simultaneous calls in the blink of an eye! Never has building an Interactive Voice Response (IVR/VRU) system been so simple, affordable, and powerful! â€œWe are excited to see what developers will build with this kind of new technology,â€ says its founder, Chris Matthieu. This is definitely next generation telecom! Cloud-based computing allows us to scale on demand and it allows you to pay for only what you need, when you need it. We are issuing Private Beta invitation codes a few at a time to ensure that our services are meeting your expectations. Please follow Teleku on Twitter and @ reply us if you are interested in giving your app a ring!

Rubyology 84: Heroku Addons with Oren Teich

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:01:00 +0000

Above is a link to our latest podcast, led by the one-and-only Chris Matthieu. You can grab this one as a direct download, though bear in mind streaming a raw mp3 without a decent broadband connection may take some time, so always give it time to buffer, as it's a shame to have it stop and start throughout playback. That being said, we think it's great to be able to offer visitors our audio ramblings on the site directly - sometimes, downloading a large mp3 isn't what you'd like on a Friday night after work is done for the week. So kick back, relax, hit stream, and enjoy. More details on the podcast are below!

@ChrisMatthieu interviews Oren @Teich of Heroku about their new add-on services that just launched on October 29th. These services are like an appstore for deployment options. Check out this fun interview to learn more about super simple cloud deployments!

Rubyology 83: Ruby IDE/Editor Deathmatch

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:12:00 +0000

Roundtable discussion on Ruby IDEs and text editors. Participants: Marc Chung, Preston Lee, Saul Mora, Benjamin Smith. (OpenRain web development ninjas.) Google Group Alternate AAC Version

Rubyology 82: Railsconf 2009 Final Day

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap the final day of Railsconf 2009.

Rubyology 81: Day 2 of Railsconf 2009

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 2 of Railsconf 2009. On location.

Rubyology 80: Heroku Interview, RailsConf 2009

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:42:00 +0000

The Heroku founders were interviewed at Railsconf 2009. We discuss their platform, niche, and business including how they came up with their name. This is probably one of our best interviews yet - hope we are getting the hang of it!

Rubyology 79: Day 1 of Railsconf 2009

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:29:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 1 of Railsconf 2009. DHH's keynote, tutorial, and sessions recap includes: Sinatra/Jruby on Rails/JQuery Tutorials UI Fundamentals Scaling Rails by Phusion Ruby Heroes Awards 2009 Rails Engine BlueRidge Hope you enjoy it!

Rubyology 78: ruby-processing, Heroku, S3 analytics.

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:19:00 +0000

Roundtable discussion on 3D GUI development with ruby-processing; Heroku overview and Q&A; AWS S3 analytics. Participants: Marc Chung, Preston Lee, Saul Mora, remi Taylor. (OpenRain Ruby development ninjas.) Google Group Alternate AAC Version

Rubyology 77: Ruby In The Enterprise, Part 2

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:22:00 +0000

Interview with University of Phoenix Senior Software Engineer Aaron K. Hawkins. Enhanced AAC Version

Rubyology 76: Roundtable 3

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Sinatra webapps and Ruby micro-frameworks. Ruby conference recommendations. Safari 4 Beta, HTML 5 and CSS 3. Participants: Marc Chung, Ben Smith, remi Taylor, Saul Mora, and Preston Lee. (OpenRain Ruby Ninjas) Enhanced AAC Version Google Group

Rubyology 75: Ruby In The Enterprise, Part 1

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:21:00 +0000

The first in a new series of "enterprise" Ruby developer interviews. Host: Preston Lee, OpenRain Software Guest: Scott Barber, iMemories Guest: Tomasz Stechly, "Large International Bank" Production: 2009.02.25.13.30 Release: 2009.02.27.18.00 Runtime: 21:50.

Rubyology 74: Ruby Roundtable 2

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:05:00 +0000

Roundtable discussion on Ruby web application scalability and source control trends in the Ruby community. Participants: Preston Lee, remi Taylor, Saul Mora. Episodes are now in high-quality stereo and alternatively available in enhanced AAC with as-they-happen links. http://rubyology.s3.amazonaws.com/rubyology-74-high.m4a Episodes download speeds should now be greatly improved. Show notes: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyology/browse_frm/thread/68be10d1b4478281

Rubyology 73: Ruby Roundtable

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:25:00 +0000

The cool Ruby hackers from OpenRain (http://OpenRain.com) forwarded us a recording from their recent Ruby developer roundtable. If you are interested Javascript and Rails, you'll love this episode! UPDATE: You can now contribute to the Rubyology podcast by participating in supplementary discussion, sharing relevant links, giving show feedback and suggesting Ruby-related topics for future episodes by joining the new Rubyology Google Group.

Rubyology 72: JotBot

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:14:00 +0000

David Koontz gave an awesome presentation at this week's Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting. The topic was lessons learned on building a Ruby-based, cross-platform, thick-client application - JotBot. This time keeping application truly looks like a native Mac application. Check it out at http://www.getjotbot.com/

Rubyology 71: Avi Bryant

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:36:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu interviews one of Ruby's thought leaders, Avi Bryant. You may know him from Maglev or DabbleDB. Avi's good at pulling rabbits out of hats. I hope that you enjoy this podcast. For more information on Maglev visit http://maglev.gemstone.com or DabbleDB at http://dabbledb.com.

Rubyology 70: Journeta

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:28:00 +0000

Welcome back code monkeys! This week's cast covers Journeta (http://rubyforge.org/projects/journeta). Journeta is a zero-configuration-required, peer-to-peer (P2P) discovery and communications library for Ruby applications on closed networks, by OpenRain, LLC (http://OpenRain.com). This Ruby gem was written by and presented to the Phoenix Ruby user group (http://rubyaz.org) by Preston Lee, Founder and President of OpenRain (http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/336)

Rubyology 69: Adhearsion

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:59:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu interviewed Jay Phillips, the founder of the Adhearsion project. Adhearsion is an open source framework that, in simplest terms, improves the way the world writes "voice" applications. It rests above a popular open-source platform called Asterisk, abstracting its many pain points and domain complexity. This framework turns Ruby developers into telecom engineers. Jay's blog is http://jicksta.com/ and his project can be found at http://adhearsion.pbwiki.com/ or http://github.com/jicksta/adhearsion/tree/master We also covered VoIP, SIP, IAX, and Erlang! Hope you enjoy the interview!

Rubyology 68: Ruby2Ruby

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:54:00 +0000

Marc Chung from OpenRain.com demos Ruby2Ruby at the Phoenix Ruby User Group (http://rubyaz.org/). Ruby2ruby provides a means of generating pure ruby code easily from ParseTreeâ€˜s Sexps. This makes making dynamic language processors much easier in ruby than ever before. Marc also covers javascript firebug tricks and beanstalk message queue handling in his demonstration.

Rubyology 67: Powerset Stars 2 of 2

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:38:00 +0000

Here is the finale of the interview with Dave Fayram (aka kirindave) and Tom Preston Werner (aka mojombo) from Powerset. I think that you will enjoy it.

Rubyology 66: Powerset Stars 1 of 2

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:45:00 +0000

This is the first of a two-part interview with Dave Fayram (aka kirindave) and Tom Preston Werner (aka mojombo) from Powerset. These Ruby, Rails, and Erlang rockstars are the developers of fuzed, an Erlang-based frontend cluster for web apps, and maintainers of Erlectricity which exposes Ruby to Erlang and vice versa (among other amazing technologies). Both of these innovative developers work for Powerset, a natural language search engine for the Internet.

Rubyology 65: Rails Envy

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:38:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu and Steven Bristol interview Gregg Pollack & Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy.com. This is a must hear behind the scenes show with some content but mostly humor. I tried to edit 8 VoIP recordings together to create something that was somewhat cohesive. Gregg and Jason are smart, funny, and quick guys - but many of the jokes had to be deleted. We appreciate their good humor and candidness. Check out http://railsenvy.com for current rails news.

Rubyology 64: Ezra Zygmuntowicz

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:23:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu and Steven Bristol interviewed Ezra Zygmuntowicz, the co-founder of Engine Yard! This 1 hour and 20 minute interview goes deep inside Ezra's mind. We covered his early programming days where he almost selected Python instead of Ruby but then came to his senses. We also discussed the early days of Engine Yard as well as the present infrastructure and the totally awesome new projects including: MERB, Rubinius, and Vertebra. Ezra is a really cool thought-leader in the Ruby/Rails community. Engine Yard is an incredibly innovative, business-class Rails hosting service with the ability to scale. My apologies in advance for some of the VoIP R2D2 experienced during this recording. The content is well worth it!

Rubyology 63: New and Improved!

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:06:00 +0000

Attention code monkeys: We've been hacked and there's no turning back. Steven Bristol from LessEverything.com has joined Chris Matthieu as co-host of the Rubyology Show. It's only appropriate that we interview the new monkey master before allowing him to interview others. In this episode we cover LessEverything's products and services, RailsConf 2008 favs, and dive deep on Rails 2.1, Mod Apache, and other surprises. Show links include: http://www.luclatulippe.com/ http://ruby.gemstone.com/ http://b.lesseverything.com/2008/6/9/converting-tzinfo-from-rails-2-0-to-2-1 Let us know what you think at: chris [at] rubyology.com (chrismatthieu on twitter) steve [at] lesseverything.com (stevenbristol on twitter)

Rubyology 62 - RailsConf 2008 Update

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:49:00 +0000

I was lucky enough to attend this year's RailsConf 2008 and met many new friends and listened to many cool new ideas and discussions. Here is a link to the Vertebra solution presented by EngineYard's Ezra - http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/06/02/introducing-vertebra

Rubyology 61: Zyps

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Jay McGavren, Phoenix Ruby Programmer Extraordinaire and all around good guy, has developed a super cool game library in Ruby called Zyps. This screencast demonstrates the following: * set up an Environment * place Creatures in the Environment * create Behaviors and add them to Creatures * create Actions for Behaviors to initiate * limit when Behaviors occur with Conditions * add EnvironmentalFactors such as wind "sudo gem install zyps" to install, or visit: http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps By jaymcgavren If you run into problems viewing this screencast, you can access an MP4 version at http://rubyology.com/mp3s/zyps_screencast.mp4

Rubyology 60: ServiceReg

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:59:00 +0000

Hey code monkeys! I built a proof-of-concept site for a RESTful service registry that is actually a RESTful API API. It's called www.ServiceReg.com and the site (which also functions as an API) allows developers to register RESTful Web services that can be used as a simple URL (including the POST, PUT, and DELETE verb-based queries). These simple URLs can be used in application, mashups, or even directly from the browser's address bar.

Rubyology 59: Amazon EC2

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:42:00 +0000

Hey code monkeys! Marc Chung from OpenRain.com gave a funtabulous presentation at this week's AZ on Rails user group meeting on deploying rails applications on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) and also demonstrated chaining tasks together in the cloud to work on a common goal (like calculating pi) using MPI (Message Passing Interface Standard). This is a MUST hear discussion. Thanks to Derek Neighbors for putting together show notes and thanks to Marc for sharing his experience with all of us :) http://derekneighbors.com/2008/2/20/phoenix-rails-february

Rubyology 58: February Update

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:25:00 +0000

Welcome back! Today we cover upcoming conference updates. Ruby 1.9 update. Heroku introduction. Wuby vs. Thin -> Wuby Wins! Enterprise SOA discussion REST vs. SOAP -> REST Wins! Interview with Theo Beack, Deputy CTO BEA - Ruby involved in their virtualization container strategies - more to come. Great Amazon service and twitter links below: http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.amazonwebservices.com%2Fconnect%2Fentry.jspa%3FexternalID%3D1182%26ref%3Dfeatured http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdominiek.com%2Farticles%2F2008%2F2%2F15%2Fhow-to-build-a-twitter-agent My post on posting twitter tweets with 10 lines of Ruby code: http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/02/16/capistrano-twitter-task-take-2

Rubyology 57: S5/P8

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:39:00 +0000

Check out my presentation at the Phoenix Rails User Group meeting on S5 and P8. Both are interesting technologies for presentations.

Rubyology 56: Active Resource

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:43:00 +0000

ActiveResource allows you to interact with a RESTful database in the sky. Think about it for a moment... Rails 1.2 and 2.0 provide RESTful services automatically through scaffolding. Active Resource provides access to these RESTful database interfaces automatically! It's amazing!

Rubyology 55: Wuby Web Templates

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:43:00 +0000

This screencast is a continuation of the episode 54 but we will be applying a web design to a Wuby application. Watch this - it's even easier than Rails!

Rubyology 54: Rails Web Templates

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:36:00 +0000

A Rubyology listener wrote in asking about quick ways to add web templates to Ruby on Rails sites. This screen casts covers selecting a web template from openwebdesign.org and applying it to a Rails 2.0 scaffold site.

Rubyology 53: Ruby OSA

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:16:00 +0000

RubyOSA provides a bridge from Ruby to the Apple Event Manager. It allows Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript. Check out my demo on controlling iTunes with Ruby and even my Wuby web application to control iTunes! Justin Williams of Mac Zealots give a great introduction to Ruby OSA as well. http://maczealots.com/tutorials/rubyosa/

Rubyology 52: JRuby @ JUG

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:58:00 +0000

If this isn't entertaining I don't know what is! David Koontz, President of Rising Tide Software (http://www.risingtidesoftware.com), gave a speech in front of 50 Java professionals at the Phoenix Java User Group (http://www.phxjug.org/) and convinced them all to switch to JRuby! I tell you, Sun should hire this guy. He knows his stuff (both java and ruby) - and he has charisma!

Rubyology 51: News Update 11/11

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:40:00 +0000

Thanks for tuning in and being patient while our site was offline. SteelPixel, our hosting provider, was expectantly acquired by Rails Playground. It took us a little while to transition our sites to the new host. BTW, RailsPlyground.com's support rocks!

Rubyology 50: Wuby Deep Dive

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:56:00 +0000

Chris Matthieu gives a deeper dive on the ins and outs of Wuby, the new Ruby framework. Wuby includes a fast Ruby web server with built-in persistent hash data store. Get your copy of this open source framework from http://rubyology.com/wuby.zip

Rubyology 49: Wuby Live!

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:45:00 +0000

I gave a presentation at this week's Arizona Rails User Group meeting in front of my peers on Wuby. Wuby is my new Ruby Framework which is basically a self contained Ruby Web Server with a persistently hashed data store. 3 milliseconds response time baby!

Rubyology 48: Attachment Fu

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:40:00 +0000

Preston Lee from OpenRain.com gave a presentation last night at the AZ Rails User Group meeting hosted at Integrum. His presentation covered imaging tools used in their Mugr.com facial recognition system that they are developing. Some of the tools included: attachment fu, kropper, and rmagic. Preston's slide can be found at http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/149 Check it out!

Rubyology 47: Wuby Intro

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:02:00 +0000

What has Chris Matthieu been up to lately? Would you believe that he has been secretly developing a new Ruby framework called Wuby? It's true :) Wuby is an extremely lightweight multi-threaded Ruby web server with a built in persistent hash-based database engine. Wuby consists of the following components: - Lightweight & fast web server - supports GET and PUT methods, CGI params and environmental variables, and optional directory browsing - Persistent & hashed data access layer

Rubyology 46: PayPal on Rails

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:19:00 +0000

I will demo to you VoteSpin's campaign donation engine powered by PayPal. I borrowed the original PayPal logic from Cuban Links blog (see URL below) http://cubanlinks.org/articles/2005/8/3/ruby-on-rails-paypal-ipn-code-example My code is below: if @request.method == :post ## use the POSTed information to create a call back URL to PayPal @query = 'cmd=_notify-validate' @request.params.each_pair {|key, value| @query = @query + '&' + key + '=' + value.first if key != 'register/pay_pal_ipn.html/pay_pal_ipn' } ##http = Net::HTTP.start(PAYPAL_URL, 80) http = Net::HTTP.start("www.paypal.com", 80) response = http.post('/cgi-bin/webscr', @query) http.finish # PayPal values item_name = @params[:item_name] item_number = @params[:item_number] payment_status = @params[:payment_status] payment_amount = @params[:mc_gross] payment_currency = @params[:mc_currency] txn_id = @params[:txn_id] receiver_email = @params[:receiver_email] payer_email = @params[:payer_email] #if response if response.body.chomp == "VERIFIED" ## check the payment status if payment_status == "Completed" # check to see if the txn_id already exists @donation = Donation.find(item_number) if @donation if @donation.transamount == 0 @paypalipn = item_name + "-" + item_number + "-" + payment_status + "-" + payment_amount + "-" + payment_currency + "-" + txn_id + "-" + receiver_email + "-" + txn_id + "-" + payer_email if @donation.update_attributes(:transamount => payment_amount, :paypalipn => @paypalipn) @voter = Voter.find(:first, :conditions => [ "id = ?", @donation.voter_id]) @message = "Hi " + @voter.userid.capitalize + ",\r\n\r\nYou have just received a $" + payment_amount + " donation at VoteSpin (http://www.votespin.com/votespin/signin?deeplink=/donations/list). \r\n\r\nRegards,\r\nTeam VoteSpin" Notifier::deliver_email_voter(@voter.email, 'info@votespin.com', 'Donation Received at VoteSpin!', @message) render :layout => false end end end end end

Rubyology 45: Advanced Rails

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:52:00 +0000

Josh Knowles concluded the Desert Code Camp series with a final hour on Advanced Rails covering AJAX and Active Resource. This presentation, in my opinion, was the best of the conference. Check it out!

Rubyology 44: Rails Intro

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:49:00 +0000

Josh Knowles (Rails Expert Freelancer - joshknowles.com) gave a 2 part presentation on Ruby on Rails at the Desert Code Camp last week. The audience pulled in approx. 100 code monkeys. His slides from Code Camp can be found at http://joshknowles.com/2007/9/18/desert-code-camp

Rubyology 43: iPhone Hacking!

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:01:00 +0000

So all you code monkeys went out and bought iPhones right? I know a few smart code monkeys that found ways to get the bossman to purchase one for them. Either way, now you have one so whacha gonna do with it? This first half of this episode features Josh Knowles (Rails Freelancer - joshknowles.com) explaining how to develop web applications that look and feel like Apple's own apps. The second half features Ian Baird (Cocoa Programmer Supreme and Founder of Skorpiostech.com) talking about how to develop and port Cocoa apps to your iPhone. Hack the planet!

Rubyology 42: JRuby

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:37:00 +0000

This is my second podcast from this weekend's Desert Code Camp in Tempe, Arizona. David Koontz, founder of RisingTideSoftware.com, gave an outstanding presentation on JRuby and even demo'd his GUI framework for Ruby called MonkeyBars. Check it out!

Rubyology 41: Agile Development

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:04:00 +0000

Desert Code Camp (Tempe, Arizona) - Josh Knowles (JoshKnowles.com) gave a speech on agile software development. Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering that promotes development iterations throughout the life-cycle of the project. Agile methods also emphasize working software as the primary measure of progress. Combined with the preference for face-to-face communication, agile methods produce very little written documentation relative to other methods. Josh is a freelancer and an opinionated Rails developer.

Rubyology 40: VoteSpin.com

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:27:00 +0000

Sit back and watch me walk through my latest Rails application - VoteSpin.com. We will cover AJAX, tags, textile, deeplinking, addthis sharing, dynamic stylesheets, session expiration, and advertising. Links from the show include: acts as taggable http://www.mslater.com/tags/textile%20redcloth (Michael Slater) http://slateinfo.blogs.wvu.edu/plugins/textile_editor_helper (by Dave Olsen and Chris Scharf) Calendar helper (Jeremy Voorhis and Geoffrey Grosenbach) http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper session_expiration (Intridea, Inc.) http://trac.intridea.com/trac/public Start over with svn find /usr/local/src/votespin/ -name \*.svn -ok rm -rf {} \; Please help me spread the word on VoteSpin.com!

Rubyology 39: Elect'd

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:19:00 +0000

Take a test drive of my latest Web 2.0 political website called Elect'd (http://www.electd.com). We will cover some web 2.0 features such as tag clouds, AJAX, Scriptaculous, twitter-like short comments, and search engine friendly URLs. def to_param "#{id}-#{candidatename.gsub(/[^a-z1-9]+/i, '-')}" end

Rubyology 38: Amazon S3 and News

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:05:00 +0000

Hi fellow code monkeys :) Today's episode covers Amazons Simple Storage Services (S3) and other important updates.

Rubyology 37: Media Temple Grid

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:41:00 +0000

Driving while podcasting - sounds illegal but it seems like the only way I'm going to get a new episode online. I've been busy working on a new project and shared my experience with deploying my latest Ruby on Rails application on Media Temple's grid infrastructure. Here's the blog posts that I mentioned in the cast with tips and tricks for deploying on mt with svn and capistrano. http://blog.vixiom.com/2007/02/18/mt-ror-a-z-the-complete-guide-to-getting-rails-running-on-media-temple/ http://www.capify.org/upgrade/gotchas http://blog.postpostmodern.com/2006/11/29/a-recipe-for-capistrano-rails-deployment-on-media-temples-grid-server/ http://myles.eftos.id.au/blog/2006/10/27/setting-up-a-rails-app-on-a-media-temple-grid-server/

Rubyology 36: AZonRails - ActiveScaffold

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:41:00 +0000

I had the opportunity of attending the Arizona on Rails user group this week hosted by Integrum. This episode is a presentation on Active Scaffold by Aaron Martin and Justin Walsh of Mega.Net.

Rubyology 35: Screencast - Ruby WebServer 3

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:11:00 +0000

ERB (Embedded Ruby)! This addition to our Ruby web server application allows you to call web pages with Ruby code that execute on the fly (time of render). Check out these snippets: myfile = IO.readlines("chris.html") #@session.puts myfile template = ERB.new <<-EOF #{myfile} EOF @session.puts template.result(binding)

Rubyology 34: Screencast - Ruby WebServer 2

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:25:00 +0000

This is a continuation of the BYO-WebServer application except rather than outputing static text, we will read and output an html file stored in the same directory. The new 2 lines of code are as follows: myfile = IO.readlines("chris.html") @session.puts myfile Tune in next week for some ERB!

Rubyology 33: Screencast - Ruby WebServer 1

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:40:00 +0000

By popular demand, here's a screencast of a basic web server engine based on Ruby. Source by Suresh Mahadevan. require 'thread' require 'socket' class RequestHandler def initialize(session) @session = session end def process while @session.gets.chop.length != 0 end @session.puts "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" @session.puts "content-type: text/html" @session.puts "" @session.puts "Hello World " @session.close end end server = TCPServer.new("0.0.0.0", "8888") while (session = server.accept) Thread.new(session) do |newSession| RequestHandler.new(newSession).process end end

Rubyology 32: Camping

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:31:00 +0000

This episode features a presentation by Jade Meskill, founder of Integrum Technologies (http://integrumtech.com) at the AZ on Rails User Group meeting from 6/19/07. Jade gave us a good walk through on Why's Camping framework.

Rubyology 31: Merb

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:11:00 +0000

I attended the AZ on Rails User Group meeting last night hosted by Integrum (http://integrumtech.com/). This episode includes 1 of the 2 presentations delivered last night. This one is on Merb, a Ruby framework, and was presented by Josh Knowles of Integrum. His personal blog can be found at http://joshknowles.com/

Rubyology 30: Screencast - HOBO

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:52:00 +0000

Back on episode #9, we covered Hobo which is a framework that runs on top of Ruby on Rails. By popular demand, we have been asked to put together a screencast on Hobo. This is the first of a series of Hobo screencasts. I hope that you enjoy them.

Rubyology 29: Screencast - Camping Part 2

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:21:00 +0000

Join us for a crash course on Camping's database tools and the SQLite database. This episode covers sessions, models, controllers, and views plus a brief intro of the SQLite database access.

Rubyology 28: Screencast - Camping Part 1

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:48:00 +0000

By popular demand, we are going to cover Why's Camping framework again but this time via a screen cast rather than an audio podcast. It's almost 18 minutes of Camping fun and it includes an exercise to determine if Bill Gates is really evil or not.

Rubyology 27: Screencast - SOAP

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 27 May 2007 18:18:00 +0000

I decided to combine all of the podcasts and screencasts into the same numbering system. I hope that you enjoy this one on SOAP-based web services!

Rubyology 13: Scaling Ruby on Rails Applications

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 26 May 2007 19:25:00 +0000

Okay - your site is successful. 1 hit, 100 hits, 1000 hits... How do you scale Ruby on Rails to meet your customers' demands? It's easier than you might think!

ScreenCast 13: SDBM

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:01:00 +0000

SDBM (formerly DBM) is a native Ruby string-based hash file-storage system. Let me know what kind of uses you can think of for this solution!

Rubyology 12: Captcha & Re-Tooling

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:22:00 +0000

This week's podcast covers those little letter images known as captchas on registration pages as well as re-using existing Rails code on new applications. Okay, we also cover some Ruby news and new gems.

Rubyology 11: BYOWS

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:02:00 +0000

BYOWS - Build Your Own Web Server! In addition to touching on Microsoft's new SilverScreen multimedia framework and Joyent's SlingShot Rails deployment application, we cover some interesting Ruby web server code found in an older discounted Ruby 1.6.6 book. It's still applicable today and supports threading!

ScreenCast 12: KirbyBase

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:23:00 +0000

Check out Jamey Cribbs' open sourced database called KirbyBase! It's a quite powerful database application written in Ruby and takes up approximately 100kb of memory. KirbyBase can be found at http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html

Rubyology 10: ActiveScaffold & Streamlined

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:01:00 +0000

In keeping up with our framework lessons, I selected two new scaffolding frameworks that add tons of cool AJAX and datagrid and scaffolding goodness to your applications with only a couple of commands! They are ActiveScaffold (formerly AjaxScaffold) and Streamlined. For a bonus, I also provide you with a sneak peak at another scaffolding framework called Auto-Admin.

ScreenCast 11: Threading

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:21:00 +0000

Did you know that Ruby supports multi-threading natively? Check out these quick couple of steps needed to thread your Ruby applications!

Rubyology 9: Hobo

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:46:00 +0000

Today's Rubyology podcast covers a powerful, up and coming new development framework called Hobo. This new plugin can be found at HoboCentral.net. It sits on top of the Rails framework and includes user role management and AJAX and slick stylesheets built-in allowing you to create a full-featured web application in minutes - no joke!

Rubyology 8: Camping

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:51:00 +0000

Today we cover Why The Lucky Stiff's Camping framework for Ruby. This is the tiny little framework (4KB size) that could. This amazing little application supports databases and allows you to quickly build small web-based applications with a 1 file distro.

ScreenCast 10: YAML

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:14:00 +0000

What is YAML? YAML = YAML Aint Markup Language! YAML is great for quickly exporting and importing data to and from your Ruby application. There seem to be many pros and cons on when to use YAML vs. XML. My rule of thumb is to use YAML when everything is controlled by your application. Use XML is you intend to transfer data outside of your application.

Rubyology 7: WebOrb & SpaTada

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:48:00 +0000

Hey fellow code monkeys! Today we are going to introduce you to Adobe's Flex data services and XML-RPC followed by a quick explanation of the podcasting website that I built my wife this week called SpaTada.com.

ScreenCast 9: XML-RPC

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:52:00 +0000

Before SOAP and REST, there were Remote Procedure Calls. Ruby ships with native RPC support and I'll show you how to built powerful remote API queries with 3 lines of Ruby code!

ScreenCast 8: Credit Cards

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:54:00 +0000

This screen cast demonstrates credit card validation within a Ruby application. It uses the credit card library from Lucas Carlson. This library validates the structure of a credit card number and can also return the type of card being used.

Rubyology 6: REST

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:51:00 +0000

Alright code monkeys - push away your keyboards and grab your coffee. I'm going to need your full attention on this podcast! Today we will be covering the new REST (Representational State Transfer) features of Rails 1.2.x. This new methodology creates a powerful, new multi-modal solution that will further propel our web development innovations!

ScreenCast 7: Crypto

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:08:00 +0000

Today's screencast will demonstrate 2 forms of cryptography: 1) 1-way hashing 2) 2-way encryption/decryption For the hashing, we will be using the SHA1 method and for the encryption, we will be using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 128 bit encryption.

Rubyology 5: Deploy

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:49:00 +0000

Okay Code Monkeys it's time to deploy our Ruby on Rails application to a hosting provider! I'll walk you through the necessary Subversion, Secure Shell, and Capistrano steps required to launch your application. Here is the link to SteelPixel's wiki page of deployment goodness: http://steelpixel.stikipad.com/support/

ScreenCast 6: WhoIs

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:17:00 +0000

This Rubyology screencast expands on the Web 2.0 Domain Randomizer routine by looking up web domain availability of those being generated by our Ruby Rand function. We are demonstrating the open-uri function in this screencast.

ScreenCast 5: Web 2.0 Names

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:44:00 +0000

This Rubyology screencast will focus on the Ruby random function and should serve as a refresher on arrays and hashes as well as looping. The source code to our example is provided below: # Rubyology Screencast - Web 2.0 Name Randomizer 10.times do letters = { ?v => 'aeiou', ?c => 'bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz'} word = '' 'cvcvc'.each_byte do |x| source = letters[x] word << source[rand(source.length)].chr end puts word + '.com' end

Rubyology 4: AJAX

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:04:00 +0000

Learn how to add AJAX to your Web 2.0 Ruby on Rails application using the link_to_remote tag and the form_remote_tag. I also briefly cover the script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript library and the auto_complete_for feature used in my Chug'd site (http://chugd.com)!

ScreenCast 4: Looping Loco

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:25:00 +0000

Ruby supports many methods of looping logic. This Rubyology screencast will show you 7 different looping structures that can be used in your Ruby or Ruby on Rails applications.

ScreenCast 3: Time Fun

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:30:00 +0000

Check out some of the cool time functions supported by Ruby!

ScreenCast 2: Arrays

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:18:00 +0000

This Rubyology screencast demonstrates tips and tricks of using arrays or hashes in Ruby.

Rubyology 3: Control Freak

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:22:00 +0000

This episode of Rubyology explores the concept of the Rails MVC (Model, View, Controller) and how basic Rails applications work. We also walk through the creation of a very simple scaffolding exercise and discuss CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) and various Rails files including helpers, partials, layout, and CSS. Grab your coffee and geek out with me!

ScreenCast 1: Strings

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:22:00 +0000

Our first screencast developed to offer programming tips and tricks on Ruby. This screencast covers basic string manipulation.

Rubyology 2: Getting Started

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:21:00 +0000

This episode will explain the various pre-packaged Ruby on Rails framework deployment solutions as well as walk you through the full deployment of Ruby 1.8.5, Rails 1.2.2, Subversion, Capistrano, Mongrel, and MySQL.

Rubyology 1: Introduction

chris@rubyology.com (Chris Matthieu) — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:34:00 +0000

Welcome to Rubyology! Let me introduce myself and explain why I am excited about Ruby on Rails web software development.