The Modest Rubyist

Recently, I have been spending some of my extra time writing a little command-line application for interacting with the O'Reilly Bookworm Public API. I remembered reading about Aruba, a Cucumber ‘add-on’ similar to cucumber-rails but for the command-line, on TheChangeLog. Aruba’s own step definitions are self-documented in its own features and scenarios but I will cover some of the basics here. I will also cover some useful parts of the API defined by Aruba that you can use to write your own steps…

Its been a little longer than I had hoped since my last post. Since I have been on vacation, working little with even less to write about, I thought I would do a little ditty on why Ruby has become my primary programming/scripting language and why I like it so much…

Recently I got introduced to Redis, a super-cool, im-memory (but less-volitale), key-value store. As usual, I was late to the party.

Redis, is several things, including a sort of data structures server. So to flash back to CompSci 101, in this article I build a stack on top of the Redis Ruby client, which is one of the first things I did with it…

So, you have written a basic generator for your Rails 3 plugin but it needs to do more. In this part I discuss the generators API in more detail…