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Ruby Module Builder patterns

July 13, 2023. Tagged Ruby, Metaprogramming.

A trick for partial includes in Ruby

August 29, 2018. Tagged Ruby.

Transforming hashes in Ruby without inject or each_with_object

April 4, 2017. Tagged Ruby.

Double splat to merge hashes

February 22, 2017. Tagged Ruby.

Rose memoization

January 26, 2016. Tagged Ruby.

Unforgettable attributes

November 14, 2015. Tagged Design patterns, Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

The emergent elegance of Elixir scoping

November 3, 2015. Tagged Ruby, Elixir, Macros.

Controlling your Mac with a Flic

October 15, 2015. Tagged Automation, OS X, Ruby.

Ruby's String#[/regexp/]

March 7, 2015. Tagged Ruby, Regular expressions.

When to define an exception class and when not to

January 13, 2015. Tagged Ruby, Exceptions.

Express complex conditionals with multiple returns

January 12, 2015. Tagged Ruby.

The !!! operator

January 9, 2015. Tagged Ruby.

Backslashy Ruby

January 8, 2015. Tagged Ruby.

Array#to_proc for hash access

November 5, 2014. Tagged Ruby, Metaprogramming.

Ruby DATA for quick-and-dirty jobs

October 22, 2014. Tagged Ruby, Vim.

Splat for concatenation

October 13, 2014. Tagged Ruby.

:: is a code smell

October 9, 2014. Tagged Ruby, Review in review.

Don't mix in your privates

February 13, 2014. Tagged Ruby.

Option lists with simple_form

September 5, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Ruby, simple_form.

Memoization is a liability

August 31, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

Constant of constants

August 30, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

String inheritance is overused

August 18, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

Struct inheritance is overused

August 8, 2013. Tagged Ruby.

Dynamic super-overridable methods in Ruby

July 31, 2013. Tagged Ruby, Metaprogramming.

Waiting on non-DOM Ajax in Capybara

February 12, 2013. Tagged JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Capybara, Ruby, Ajax.

De Morgan's laws in programming

September 19, 2012. Tagged Logic, General programming, Ruby.

Tests on demand using Vimux and Turbux with Spork and Guard

July 13, 2012. Tagged Testing, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Vim, tmux.

Vim Ruby Runner

March 19, 2011. Tagged Vim, Ruby.

Canonizing pseudo-slugs in Rails

September 13, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Git hook to auto-reference tickets from the branchname

September 10, 2009. Tagged Git, Git hook, Ruby.

Jekyll

April 23, 2009. Tagged Jekyll, WordPress, Ruby.

Time zones and multidimensional grouping with Active Record and MySQL

March 26, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Non-restricting scope and the UserSession class in Rails

February 19, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Get rid of org.jruby.Main with JRuby on Rails

January 9, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Rake, JRuby.

Merb flat apps: layout and template paths

November 26, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Merb.

Use "require 'sass'" to enable Sass with Merb 1.0.1

November 25, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Merb.

AtomICA: ICA-banken RSS feed

November 25, 2008. Tagged Ruby, RSS.

Use save(false), not save_without_validation

November 24, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Check if gravatar exists for email in Ruby

November 21, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

Rails/jQuery UI sortables with single UPDATE query

November 15, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Ajax, jQuery.

Validate URL format in Rails

October 19, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Validating slugs against existing routes in Rails

October 18, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using form helpers with split-up forms in Rails

October 15, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

cap gems:install and a Gem dependency gotcha

October 12, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano.

Repeat content in Rails with content_for

October 3, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Augmentations plugin for Rails

September 10, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Custom 404 action in Rails

July 25, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Raise Error404, don't render and return

July 24, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

irb readline support on Leopard

March 22, 2008. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Flickr-style tag splitting in Ruby

March 4, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

del.ishli.st – a del.icio.us wishlist

February 23, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Merb.

Rails model extensions (mincemeat models revisited)

February 8, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

with_unprotected_attributes Rails plugin

February 6, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

admins_create_and_edit

February 6, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Haml::Template options in Merb

February 5, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Haml, Merb.

Non-obvious method arguments in Ruby

February 4, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

Lambda

February 1, 2008. Tagged Ruby.

Rails truncate helper that handles HTML tags and entities

January 30, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Hpricot.

IMDB Trivia & Goofs Growler

January 28, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Hpricot.

surround helper alternative in Haml

January 21, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Haml.

rake solr:tail for acts_as_solr query log

December 28, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake, acts_as_solr.

Full error messages without prepended attribute name

December 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

The Dilbert Blog RSS feed with full entries (and RSS scraping with Ruby on Dreamhost)

December 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Hpricot, RSS.

Change displayed column name in Rails validation messages

December 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

My Rails title helpers

November 26, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Use __END__ for keeping code around in testing

November 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Comma concatenation for punctuation after link in Haml

November 5, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

rake accessify

October 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake.

Whiny protected attributes

October 5, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Bypassing attr_accessible/attr_protected for test factories

October 4, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

object.in?(collection)

September 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby.

Ruby script to batch find-and-replace in LiveJournal entries

September 11, 2007. Tagged Ruby, LiveJournal.

Make blank acts_as_solr queries find all records

September 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using RJS generator methods in raw JS

August 29, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ajax.

Skinny controller, mincemeat model

July 25, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Ruby on Rails.

TextMate "Paste Line/Selection Online" command mod

July 10, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

Flash outgoing mail in Ruby on Rails development

June 29, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Preferences class for TextMate commands

June 28, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

Grep in Project command for TextMate

June 27, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

An alternative to password confirmation

June 25, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Annoyances, Ruby on Rails, UI.

Raising finders

June 24, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using will_paginate with acts_as_solr

June 15, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Rake task to (re)index models for acts_as_solr

June 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake.

"cap deploy" command for TextMate

June 8, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Ruby on Rails, Shell scripting, Capistrano.

Fix SharePod "non-standard" characters

June 1, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Windows.

Recent LiveJournal entries with Ruby (including LJ cuts and comments)

May 9, 2007. Tagged Ruby, LiveJournal.

"Premature end of script headers" for CGI can be directory permissions

April 27, 2007. Tagged Ruby.

Ruby script to make LiveJournal entries private in batch

April 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby, LiveJournal.

Transform all text nodes (excepting elements) with Hpricot

March 28, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Hpricot.

Ruby wordwrap method

March 24, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using gsub with blocks to strip attributes from HTML tags

March 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby.

Automatically open incoming URLs with Adium

January 22, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, AppleScript, Adium.

iCalTV 0.6 released

January 2, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Rexpolotl – simple regexp engine in Ruby

November 2, 2006. Tagged Ruby, Regexps.

Exporting Adium log message bodies for Markov Chain fun

September 28, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, Adium.

Converting integers to Swedish

September 27, 2006. Tagged Ruby.

iCalTV 0.5 released

September 3, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Improved Greasemonkey bundle for TextMate

August 31, 2006. Tagged Greasemonkey, JavaScript, Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Firefox.

Quick keyword tagging in iPhoto

August 14, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, AppleScript.

Retain metadata when exporting and reimporting iPhoto pictures, hackishly

August 12, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, AppleScript.

iCalTV 0.4 released

August 7, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

iCalTV: iCal reminders for favorite TV shows through XMLTV

July 27, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.

Partial wrapper for libxml with REXML fallback

July 24, 2006. Tagged Ruby.

Modifying the Transmit widget to copy URLs to clipboard

July 21, 2006. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, OS X, Dashboard widgets.

TextMate: "Copy undented" command

July 16, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate.

Batch-open URLs from clipboard

July 16, 2006. Tagged Ruby, OS X.