Beginner Ruby

Last night, I opensource’d my first Ruby project using github – it’s a bulk domain name lookup tool named Domainblob. of course, I’ve released code before via examples on this blog and such, but I have never really started a github repo just for a project. I am very excited by this, I know it’s [...]

Ever since I learned how easy it was to manipulate files with Ruby I have been using it like crazy. And why not, it makes it possible to manipulate existing data and to save computed data. I wanted to write about this and when I needed to be able to easily view the changes made [...]

For years now I’ve heard people reference API’s — sometimes this was in reference to libraries used with programming languages but really the kind I mean are web service API’s. These are the kind used by a developer/application to interact with a web service. I have never worked on a full blown web application so [...]

If you’re like me then atleast once a day you get an idea for a great domain name, and so you head to GoDaddy.com to use their domain-name search to see if its available. At somepoint I thought to myself, hey I could do this with a Ruby Script right from the command-line so I [...]