Archive for the 'Ruby' Category

Git tracking

We've been switching to git recently and something mildly annoys me about it not to mention certain colleagues of mine have a dread fear of ...

Simple Office 2007 Excel file to CSV hack

I needed to convert a very simple Office 2007 Excel file into a CSV. I don't have Office 2007 so I hacked up some Ruby ...

Legacy Capistrano Issues

I have some apps deployed with older versions of capistrano but I still want to be able to use the latest capistrano on newer projects. ...

Testing without the database

We’ve been embracing the whole testing without the database for our unit tests, making use of unit_record. However, with a recent update I found a ...

I just released my first Ruby Gem!

Just a few minutes ago I released my first rubygem - tuxdroid an api for interfacing with the tuxdroid robot from kysoh. It’s sweet being able ...

Where are the Rubyists in Bournemouth?

Hello? Is anyone out there? I’m looking for other Rubyists in the Bournemouth area. There doesn’t seem to be a local Ruby User Group and so ...

Ruby on Rails Exchange - Part 2

In my last post I wrote up the first half of my attendance of the RoR eXchange hosted by skillsmatter up in London. Now I’m going ...

Ruby on Rails Exchange

Well, we made it to the first RoR eXchange - a mini-conference organised by skillsmatter up in London. On the speakers list were some cool ...

Testing Rocks

Well, recently I embraced unit testing. Over the last year I’ve been so busy, with such tight deadlines, often working on existing software (which had ...

How Rails Made Me A Better Programmer

Or How Rails Let Me Embrace My Lazy Side Before learning Rails and Ruby, I was a dabbler. I can program in many languages and have ...