command line Add vim to a pipeline with vipe Have you ever wanted to stop and edit text in the middle of a pipeline? With vipe you can!
ruby Connecting Objects with Observable Let's dive a bit into the Observable module from Ruby's standard library.
command line What's a $PATH anyway? You've probably seen $PATH or just PATH before as the place you needto add new commands for your prompt. What is that? Where is it? How does it work?
ruby Let's Use Hwacha to Scan URLs I've written a gem, Hwacha, as a wrapper around Typhoeus to allow for quick and easy response checking for multiple URLs. Let's go through some simple use cases!
git Deliberate Git Git gives us the opportunity to do something really amazing. It allows us to make quick commits locally without breaking flow and then allows us to rewrite those commits into a cohesive story that we share with our team.
ruby Customize Your IRB Useful tips and tricks describing how you can customize irb (the default Ruby REPL).
programming Program Like a Videogamer It's hard to start learning new programming techniques or new tech stacks. In this post I share how I approach these tasks from the mindset of a videogamer.
ruby Gem Spotlight: interactive_editor Dive into one of my favorite Ruby gems: interactive_editor. It allows you to open a full text editor from a REPL session!
career Things Most Interviewees Fail to Discover Key things to find out when you evaluate a potential new employer, team, and work environment.
rails Rails isn't for beginners There's been some talk online about how Rails is losing its focus on beginners or that it's getting too complex for its own good. I have a different take: Rails was never written for beginners. Let's go through a bit of Rails history and philosophy.
ruby A Taste of Metaprogramming Today we take a small taste from the wide ranging metaprogramming abilities that Ruby gives us. We'll be looking at `define_method` and `method_missing` to take a class of hardcoded repetitive methods to class that has methods dynamically created at runtime or methods that never really exist.
ruby Fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors Explore the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors for a bit of coding fun. We'll implement some simple players and move on to some basic metaprogramming techniques and write players that manipulate each other or the game itself.
ruby Let's Write a Gem: Part 2 In this post we'll finish our tutorial gem. Along the way I'll point out some confusing pitfalls you can run into when testing gems locally.
ruby Let's Write a Gem: Part 1 Gems. Gotta love em. If you're a Ruby developer then you already know that gems are simply fundamental to Ruby programming. Let's write one.
rails Increase Rails Performance with Database Indexes Ever added a belongs_to or has_many to a model in Rails? Did you remember to add the database index? Find out why you should and how it's done in this guest article by yodatravis.
ruby Parsing Dates and Times from Strings using strptime Howdy ya'll. As much as we'd prefer to just deal with nicely formatted data; the real world sometimes requires that we parse weird datetime strings into actual DateTime objects. Today's article is all
ruby Anonymous blocks as function arguments in Ruby How to write some idiomatic Ruby methods that accept optional blocks of code to execute.
