Guides to the core and standard libraries, as well as selected Rubygems.
Category: APIs and Libraries
Episode #434: Scanf
Today we learn how to match patterns and parse out values all at once.
Episode #429: Oga
Today we learn about a lightweight alternative to Nokogiri for XML parsing.
Episode #428: Http.rb
In which we say hello to a promising alternative to Ruby's standard Net::HTTP library.
Episode #427: Subprocesses Part 8: Environmental Isolation
In today's episode we'll see how to discover what environment variables our programs are implicitly relying on.
Episode #426: Subprocesses Part 7: Soft Limits
Resource limits don't always have to be hard. Today we'll see how to put fuzzy handcuffs on a process.
Episode #425: Subprocesses Part 6: Limits
Sometimes child processes can get unruly. Today we'll learn how to impose some discipline, using resource limits.
Episode #424: Rake Regex Rule
In this episode we'll learn to use advanced Rake rules to define and track arbitrarily complex file dependencies.
Episode #420: Rake Custom Task
In today's episode we teach rake to manage remote blog posts the same way it manages local files.
Episode #419: Subprocesses Part 4: Redirection
Today we look at redirecting subprocess I/O, and discover that it's surprisingly easy!