My children know they are supposed to clean their place at the table after dinner. Sometimes software builds need to be cleaned up too, and today we'll learn about an …
Category: Episodes
Episode #133: Rake File Operations
Rake has a lot of tricks up its sleeve. In this episode we'll look at some of the helpers it provides for performing various common operations on files.
Episode #132: Rake Pathmap
Today's dish is a real delicacy... we're going to dig into one of Rake's most powerful but little-known capabilities and see how we can easily transform collections of path names …
Episode #131: Rake Rules
In this episode we learn how to write advanced Rake rules which programatically determine the appropriate prerequisites for a given target file.
Episode #130: Rake File lists
As we continue our series on Rake, today we look at the Rake::FileList and how it can help us find the files we need and ignore the ones we don't.
Episode #129: Rake
Today we begin a series on the Rake build tool. We'll be getting into some powerful, lesser-known features as we continue on; but we'll start out with a quick review …
Episode #128: Enumerable Queue
Queue, somewhat surprisingly, is not enumerable. Which is all the excuse we need to have some more fun with the Enumerator class, in today's episode.
Episode #127: Parallel Fib
Last time around we introduced the Queue class. In this episode, we'll put it to work!
Episode #126: Queue
Today's episode introduces the Queue standard library, and shows how it can be used to coordinate threads.