On Friday I came across this post asking for people to try and do interesting things with the recently published 11 year data dump of BoingBoing blog posts. For a long time I’ve been itching to try and use the ruby classifier gem for something cool and I figured that this was my chance. I decided to create a quick [...]

A couple months ago @damon and @dacort I were talking about how useful Rubular (a utility website: one page, does one thing and does it well) was and I told them about my idea to make a “Rubular for strftime formatting codes”. If you’re unfamilar with the strftime function, it’s the piece of software that makes dates and times look [...]

I came across an incredibly poorly worded question on StackOverflow where the person asked How to Manipulate the DOM with Ruby on Rails. After some back and forth it turns out that he’s not asking how to use RJS or even how parse a page with Hpricot or Nokogiri, but instead was asking for a general solution on how to [...]

I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things. One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in the discussion. The audio quality [...]