Other blogs about Ruby or Rails have already touched some of the tips I’m going to show, but it never hurts to remind you these small recipes aimed at Ruby novices:
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To my shame as a rubyist, it was only a couple of hours ago that I found out, while reading Ruby Inside about mod_rails and the wonders it does for the Rails community.

If, like me, you had been using Ultimate Warrior Tags (UTW) to assign Technorati-compatible tags to your article, then you must have been as annoyed as I was when upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.2 or Wordpress 2.3.3. All of the sudden, Wordpress acquired tagging capabilities but disabled UTW along the way.
Don’t get me wrong, I love […]

Brief Enghlish version
Go create a Wordpress theme (I’d suggest a design for Sandbox, for instance), upload it to wordpress themes websites after having added your link in footer.php, then patiently wait for people to download and use it - easy Page Rank and Technorati Authority boost.
Longer Romanian version:
Stiu, nu dai doi bani pe autoritatea Technorati. […]

Got myself a sleepless night recently and killed some time reading the Rubyisms in Rails book. The chapter about Iterators was particularly pleasant, reminding me the beauty of Ruby’s Enumerable class - feels so Lisp-ish and Scheme-ish to write stuff like col.select{..}.collect{..}.join(”, “)
For the curious, here’s a cool excerpt from the book, with Enumerable’s most […]

Sun a anuntat azi cumpararea MySQL cu 1 miliard de dolari. Daca cineva se mai indoia ca Open Source-ul este un model de business perfect valabil, iata dar confirmarea.
Am ascultat anul trecut, la Eliberatica 2007, pe Monty Widenius, inginerul sef al MySQL, si i-am si dat tarcoale prin pauza de cafea. Iata dar inca un […]

Last time I discussed Ruby and metaprogramming, I was trying to stay DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) while coding some very similar-looking methods. The solution, then was to use class_eval to dynamically add methods into the current class, the way attr_accessor and it’s peers already do.
Today I was having a similar, yet more difficult problem: the […]

Am fost aseara la wurbe2, eveniment desfasurat la sediul Adobe. Buni baieti cei de la Adobe, ne-au dat wifi, sucuri, badge-uri de vizitatori si, mai ales, pizza - multe, multe pizze, cat sa se ajunga si sa mai si ramana.

I keep having the following problem when dealing with svn: I frequently find myself wanting to add to my own SVN repository stuff(javascript libraries, rails plugins) retrieved from some other svn repositories. The inevitable outcome of my bold attempt is that SVN starts complaining that the new folders can’t be submitted, that they already are […]

Ruby is so powerful it scares me. I’m far from even grasping how powerful it is. Whenever I discover something cool to do with it, I have the urge to tell it to the world.
First, here’s the context:
I’m currently working my way through building a Rails browser game in the style of these ones. For […]

Here’s the quick story: I was hoping to win the Romanian lottery (6 winning numbers out of 49). On the website, they were having the list of the winning numbers from 1998 to now. So I copy-pasted them all into a text file, and wrote a quick and dirty script to count their appearances and […]