Introductions and tips for various useful development tools & utilities.
Category: Tools
Episode #255: Httpd
Today's dish is about a fun-but-useful easter egg in the Ruby standard library.
Episode #189: Assisted Refactoring
In today's episode, we'll examine how the availability of tools to aid refactoring can change how we write code.
Episode #175: REPL-Driven Development
In today's episode I cover a classic development technique that doesn't get enough press these days. Interactive, exploratory development was and is common in the Lisp world, and Ruby's dynamic …
Episode #167: Debugging in Gems
When debugging a tricky problem, don't you sometimes wish you could just drop a line of debugging code right in the middle of a third-party gem? This episode shows how …
Episode #148: Rake Invoke
This episode looks at how to invoke Rake tasks from other programs.
Episode #135: Rake Multitask
In this, the final (for now) episode of the Rake miniseries, we take a look at how to speed up Rake runs by taking advantage of multiple cores.
Episode #134: Rake Clean
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 …
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 …