Beginner Ruby

While tinkering recently on a hobby project, I kept having ‘freezing’ issues. Sure I tried to error handle the bah-jeezus out of it in order to fail gracefully instead of forever hanging, but for some reason which I couldn’t ascertain – the thing was hanging.

I suddenly remembered about a SetTimeout

One of my most recent open-source Ruby projects is a little project I called ‘RubyRetriever’. RubyRetriever is supposed to be an auto-downloader, it goes out like a spider to every URL you provide and it scans them for executables – and if it finds any it downloads them. The reason

Have you seen this error:

Usually I write exclusively about Ruby on this site, and that may change in the near future, but today’s post is brought on by hours of painful troubleshooting I had to endure in order to get a functional Ruby on Rails environment setup on my Debian

Just released moments ago, is a new product named RubyMotion. Ruby Motion, by original MacRuby author Laurent Sansonetti, is a development toolkit for writing iOS apps in native code using Ruby. Starting today, you can be using Ruby to write apps for your iPhone or iPad.

It’s interesting that this project