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For the past few months, I've become more and more disillusioned by the current state of Ruby's scripting support. Sure, we have optparse, and a gamut of other solutions, but there's no full-stack package for writing robust binaries. Enter thor. The idea behind thor initially came from my work on
Ruby is a great language. It was designed to foster happiness and productivity in developers, all the while providing tools that are effective and yet focused on simplicity.
This summer I was selected with Josh Peek, Emilio Tagua and Nelson Crespo to work with Rails on Google Summer of Code (GSoC), which Nelson named as the Rails Summer Quartet. :) Here, at Plataforma, we use a set of tools on our projects, which includes Inherited Resources, Remarkable and Formtastic. At some point, we ... »
Rake is ubiquitous in Ruby-land, but its power is often under-appreciated and under-used. Over the course of the past two weeks I’ve been posting a series of RubyTapas videos I did on Rake. T…
An important question in code structure is whether to make classes work together through composition or inheritance. The "has a" relationshi...
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In January 2014, Stanford University professors Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani (authors of the legendary Elements of Statistical Learning textbook) taught an online course based on their newest textbook, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R (ISLR). I found it to be an excellent course in statistical learning
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Ganesh Prasad proposes minimizing service dependencies in a SOA implementation rather than avoiding point-to-point connections in order to obtain a more flexible system that can evolve over time.
In Fearless Refactoring: Rails controllers I'll teach how to improve your Rails controllers in a quick and safe way. This is step-by-step guide so you won't feel lost. Every step is described in every detail, with code changes. All of that, so that you can safely refactor your codebase, even without a full test coverage.