How to easily create some simple bar charts (and graphs in general) with Ruby and Gruff.

Very creative... A superhero visits from the future to discuss Ruby: brief history, industry support, and a slew of new books.

SapphireSteel Software today released a free edition of Ruby In Steel, the Ruby and Rails IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. It provides the tools needed to develop and maintain Ruby or Rails projects (e.g. code coloring, code folding, auto-indenting, keyword matching). It even includes a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 for Ruby!

Later today, SapphireSteel is going to release a free ‘personal’ version of their Ruby in Steel IDE (based on the Visual Studio Shell). This is great news for those of you who are used to Visual Studio and are now switching to Ruby/Rails, or simply for developers who opt to work on Windows.

For one of my self-edification projects I’ve been trying to implement some very simple HTTP client code in Ruby, which I want to use to transfer hundreds or thousands of megabytes of data from an HTTP server.

There have been a bunch of interesting tools released for Ruby lately. I decided to write about a few of my favorite Ruby tools and give some of the new tools a shot as well. Simply put, better tools can help you be a better developer.

Interesting web framework job listing metrics from Simply Hired. Check out the growth rate percentages listed below the graph.

A work that started at an attempt to automate stock investment, from retrieving stock investment,to using knapsack algorithm to find which and how much to invest, then invest on virtual stock investment sites via WATIR. All the code is provided, however in its raw state, open for others to use it for their own purpose.

Tutorial on installing Ubuntu server 8.04.1 and getting a web server up and running

A discussion about the pros and cons of using plugins and writing your own code.