All Blog Posts Tagged 'ruby' (10)

So I figured that as a follow-up of my overview on continuous delivery, I shall present past experiences of establishing such systems in various environments.

Version control systems (VCS) and continuous integration systems (CIS) are essential to me in software development so I like to set up a…

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About a year ago, inspired by the legendary Aloha on Rails, a Ruby on Rails conference organized by Seth Ladd in 2009, a bunch of regulars at a local Honolulu Ruby user group aloha.rb (http://www.meetup.com/aloharb/) decided to organize another Hawaii Ruby conference in 2012. After a lot of hard work, Aloha Ruby Conf (http://aloharubyconf.com/) is…

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I know "Microsoft" is not the first word that comes mind when you're writing a ruby application but since Google dropped the free tier for their translation service the Microsoft Translator API is a good alternative for a small/personal project that you don't want to have to bother with the monthly bill.  

 

Recently I've had to use this API in a project and this weekend I extracted the functionality out into a simple gem.  I present to you 'microsoft_translator'  (queue…

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This post is just a friendly reminder for those that practice TDD/BDD to make sure they are not putting more ceremony into their tests than is necessary.  Use mocks and stubs instead!

 

Mocks are just stand-ins that behave like the thing we want it to represent.  Stubs will fake a method call and return a canned response.  These save time both in setting up the test and in running it (depending on if your real objects are persisted in a test database).  When you test a method…

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A long time ago, during the time of green screen computers, if a network server wanted to process a request from a client, it would have to wait for the I/O (Input/Output) process on the incoming data packets to complete and then process the data before accepting another request from a client.  What if it took 1 second to complete a single request and there were 60 clients simultaneously sending requests?  If I remember…

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Aloha!



We're proud to partner with Hawaii Information Consortium, the company behind eHawaii.gov, to offer the Hawaii High School Student Grant to attend Aloha on Rails. The grant covers the registration fees to attend Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference.



This grant is intended to ensure that we continue to… Continue

Aloha!



We're proud to present teaser videos for talks and presentations at Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference. Aloha on Rails is a three day tutorial and conference, teaching you how to build interactive web applications with the most productive and fun web framework out there: Ruby on Rails! After the tutorial, attend the two day conference and learn more about your craft, your career, and the technologies… Continue

We now have news groups for most of the major languages like Ruby and Java on NewsforWhatYouDo.com.



Newsforwhatyoudo is a new type of news/feed reader that lets you discover, read, and discuss news with others in your industry and job function. Because sources, topics and… Continue