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Harnessing the Power of the Ruby SDK on AWS

Since launching in early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the dominant entity in Cloud Computing. Their offering includes such services as EC2 for...

0 replies - 2864 views - 06/19/12 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

An S3 File Bucket Downloader Written in Ruby

Today I wanted to download files from a website that I happened to find out that stored all files in S3. By accessing the website root, I realized that...

0 replies - 2500 views - 06/06/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

5 Signs You Should Hire a Programmer on the Spot

Bringing a programmer in for an interview and a coding test can lead to some interesting experiences, both for the interviewer and the interviewee. Most...

8 replies - 22772 views - 05/02/12 by Brian Kelly in Articles

Should the CIO Know How to Code?

Read this Computerworld posting: Should the CIO know how to code? The answer is "Yes." The examples of "well-functioning non-technical...

2 replies - 9199 views - 05/02/12 by Steven Lott in Articles

Negativity on Rails: A Good Thing?

The content of this post was originally written by Jeff Dickey over at his blog.  In attending my first Railsconf, one thing I noticed that I did not...

0 replies - 1883 views - 04/26/12 by Jeff Dickey in Articles

Delivery Encrypted Cloud Storage for Ruby Applications

IDrive just finished a set of Ruby samples complete with full library you can use when developing your encrypted, versioned cloud storage for your web...

0 replies - 3111 views - 04/20/12 by Kin Lane in Articles

Video: Get Started with Ruby on Cloud Foundry

This is a half-hour video with one of the senior software engineers at Cloud Foundry.  Jennifer Hickey shows you how to get Ruby running on Cloud Foundry...

0 replies - 2285 views - 04/20/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

How to Set up Wordpress on EC2 Using Puppet and Git

Having started out on a Joyent appliance, migrating to Linode, and finally, to Amazon with a Bitnami stack, we noticed the common pain of manually...

0 replies - 5629 views - 03/29/12 by Daniel Ackerson in Articles

GitHub Hacked: How to Protect Your Code

You should take a serious look at your application and write some tests, first thing Monday. I would write integration tests with real data that attempt to...

0 replies - 6018 views - 03/05/12 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Making Rich Domain Models in Ruby is Better than in Java

Being a Java developer starting to do some programing in Ruby i found many different nice things in the language and the way things are done. One of the...

11 replies - 5398 views - 03/05/12 by Carlo Scarioni in Articles

A Ruby Inquiry: Is it Interpreted or Compiled?

Ever since I started to work with Ruby in 2008, I’ve always assumed that it was an interpreted language like PHP or Javascript – in other words, that...

0 replies - 1828 views - 03/02/12 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles

Exploring Java's Concurrency Model with JRuby in the Driver's Seat

Threads are back in style these days. If you were like me, a Java engineer getting into Ruby couple years back, you probably would have seen your fair...

0 replies - 4202 views - 02/28/12 by Santosh Kumar in Articles

A Ruby Mystery that May Alienate New Ruby Users

In ruby 1.8.7, the following worksMichael-Mainguys-MacBook-Pro:~ michaelmainguy$ irb ruby-1.8.7-p352 :001 > foo = {"foo","bar"} =>...

0 replies - 1855 views - 02/23/12 by Michael Mainguy in Articles

Six Reasons to Avoid Amazon DynamoDB if You're a Ruby Developer

At least one user is claiming that Amazon DynamoDB is not "production ready."  DynamoDB is a relatively inexpensive, managed, hosted NoSQL database...

0 replies - 4961 views - 02/21/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using Neo4j and Ruby

Previously I showed you how to get Neo4j up and running with Ruby and how to find recommended friends on a social network. What about finding out how you...

0 replies - 3793 views - 02/21/12 by Max De Marzi in Articles