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• Ruby QuickRef

• 2024
  • October
    • Happy (Ruby) Birfday to me!
• 2021
  • January
    • Declaring Complacency Bankruptcy
• 2018
  • November
    • Speaker Pro-Tips
    • Graphics and Simulations (and Games), Oh My!
  • June
    • Interesting Problems: Mondrian
  • May
    • The Art of Asking
  • April
    • Minitest 6: Test Feistier!
  • March
    • Continuous Conscious Self-Improvement
  • January
    • On Health and Happiness
• 2017
  • November
    • Happy (Ruby) Birfday to me!
    • Stale blog is stale
• 2016
  • May
    • Introducing path_expander
  • March
    • Fixing Keynote Presentation Display
• 2015
  • October
    • Happy Birfday to me!
  • April
    • Great Expectations
    • Debride gets better rails support
  • March
    • Debride gets Plugins!
    • Debride gets Whitelisting
    • Meet Debride
    • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
  • January
    • You can go home now, I solved testing
    • Emacs Automodes
• 2014
  • December
    • Updated iTunes Bedtime script
  • October
    • Happy Birfday to me!
  • September
    • One Reservoir Nerd Left
  • May
    • Catching Up
• 2013
  • October
    • 9000 Commits
    • Time Machine Repair
    • Happy Birfday to me!
  • July
    • Triage Applescript for OmniFocus
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 8: Ruby and Outline
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 7: Q & A (1)
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 6: What Next?
    • ruby_parser, flog, & flay now have ruby 2.0 support
  • June
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 5 Sanity
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 4: Hooks
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 3: OSX
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 2: packages
    • My Emacs Setup, pt 1
    • MWRC Slides Posted
  • April
    • Safari Split Window
  • March
    • Fuzzy Duplication Detection in Flay
  • January
    • One Way 1.9 Drives Me Nuts
• 2012
  • December
    • Minitest Parallelization and You
    • assert_in_delta
  • October
    • Happy Birfday to me!
  • September
    • Oh My Gems!
    • Video Posted for Madison Ruby 2012
    • Career Advice
  • August
    • the real minaswan
    • Making Siren Song
    • What are block args?
    • Madison Ruby 2012 - How to Contribute to Open Source - Holy Crap, Communicate!
    • thinking before debugging
    • Occupy Ruby Video is up
    • What do you want to hire?
  • July
    • Before You Monkeypatch... Communicate!
    • Cascadia Ruby 2012 - Occupy Ruby
  • June
    • iwritecode.com
    • CDPATH
    • toggle.el
    • Simple Transparent Workflow
    • LOLtests show rspec 2x slower than minitest
    • autotest.el
    • autotest
    • Isolate
    • minitest
    • Hoe
    • The Solution
    • My Command Line Prompt
    • My Emacs Workflow
    • Infrastructure First
    • Expansion & Contraction Cycles
    • Short Release Cycles
  • May
    • One Principal / Group / Meeting
    • Code Ownership & Egoless Programming
    • Automated Changelogs
    • One Pagers
    • omnifocus gem
    • Omnifocus on iPhone and iPad
    • Omnifocus Scripts
    • Project Oriented Tasks
    • Weekly Review
    • Madison Ruby Conference 2012
    • Perspectives
    • Repeating Tasks
    • How to Write MiniTest::Spec Expectations
    • Contexts
    • Omnifocus Project Organization
    • The Dumping Grounds
    • Inherited Sucks
    • productivity pr0n
  • April
    • minitest mock -- which is more important?
    • I’ve got the Tpkg Blues
    • Minitest Pride
    • I don’t always code
  • March
    • assert_equal_unordered
  • February
    • Split Releases to a New Blog
    • Reminder: 10 Year Anniversary Party!
  • January
    • Array#natural_sort
    • Enumerable#uniq_by
    • Seattle.rb 10 Year Anniversary!
    • assert_nothing_tested
    • Simulating .PHONY in Rake
    • Reverse Sort
• 2011
  • December
    • (Part of) Why I still use ruby 1.8
    • 45° Perspective
    • Ruby Classes are Open, Damnit
    • Tracking ns-toggle-fullscreen state
    • Setting review intervals in OmniFocus
    • Top Left Corner Analysis
  • November
    • ssh tunneling via OSX’s launchctl
    • 5 Minutes (per commit)
  • October
    • ugh
    • Happy Birfday to me!
    • Bug Bounty Scorecard
    • First bounty claimed!
  • September
    • Wanted: $50 / fix: ruby_parser fixes Dead or Alive
    • Simplify
    • This makes me weep
  • August
    • Applescript PITA: Set iTunes DJ playlist and multiple speakers
    • Clean rake tasks for flog and flay
    • To gem or not to gem?
    • Cascadia Ruby Conf 2011 Slides
    • minitest/spec with #its
  • May
    • rubygems 1.8 is coming
  • March
    • Question of the Day
  • February
    • zomg!
• 2010
  • December
    • Bounty: ruby_parser needs 1.9 love
  • November
    • 1.9, Really?
    • Bold Colors
  • October
    • Happy Birfday to Me
  • September
    • Workflow Slides
    • I’ll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours
    • GoGaRuCo 2010: Workflow
    • Talking at GoGaRuCo Saturday, but what about?
  • August
    • RubyKoans via autotest
  • June
    • Autotest Idea
    • DateTime sucks
    • That Stupid Thing I Wrote the Other Day, part 3
    • New Nomenclature
  • May
    • Awesome Rdoc. Awesomer Code.
  • February
    • Isolate for Rails Apps
  • January
    • RDoc via OSX’s Dictionary.app
    • rubygems sings!
• 2009
  • December
    • blog moved
    • Worst. Ideas. Evar.
  • November
    • Apparently I Suck
  • October
    • Unit Testing Applications in Cocoa
  • September
    • 10 Principles of Good Design
    • Ruby Hitsquad’s Newest Members
    • wilson
  • August
    • Why I Hate Yacc
    • GEM_PATH, rubygems, and you
  • July
    • DIR_DIR_DUR
  • June
    • a nice quote
    • Releasing with Hoe
    • THREE HUNDRED!
    • Getting there...
    • Sorting with Ruby, RubyInline, and Thrust
    • Hoe 2, Electric Boogaloo
    • hey, joe
    • commit 5000!
  • May
    • coming soon...
    • user registration fixed
    • hamlet, via adium
    • How to Solve It, by G Polya
  • April
    • spec yoda will
    • ParseTree EOL
    • rubygems now has plugins!
    • graph is awesome
  • March
    • Multi-Environment Vlad the Easy Way
    • WANTED: 27 cute little puppies need new homes
    • autotest_screen has a new home
    • Flog readability enhancements
    • The Cappuccino Connection
    • Dusting off Vlad
  • February
    • tagz vs markaby/builder/haml/erubis
    • Reservoir Nerds, pt 3
  • January
    • Reservoir Nerds, pt 2
    • Reservoir Nerds
    • flayjs... flayc...
    • Getting There...
    • YAY!
    • Great Quote
• 2008
  • December
    • Gauntlet Kicks Ass
    • 200thish Seattle.rb Meeting!
    • Running the Gauntlet with Flog
  • November
    • fat code is slow code
    • Made my Day
    • Need Ruby Text Editor Suggestions
    • Flay detecting identical and similar code
    • rubygems 1.2.x?
    • I Want Crazy
    • Flay is blowing my mind
  • October
    • Crazy Singleton Methods
    • last thing I’ll say about this
    • Ranty McRantalot’s reply to a douchebag
    • from irc
    • I’m in lexer hell
    • Some reasons why I left the ACM
    • RubyGems How-To: Preventing Catastrophe
  • September
    • OmniFocus: Schedule Followup (applescript)
    • Flay is Coming
    • Letting Go
    • [ANN/PIMP] Ruby Certificate Program @ University of Washington This Fall
  • August
    • “Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work” applies to more than code
    • Writing Extensions using Hoe
    • Better way to test multi-layered code?
  • July
    • Projects
    • About the Author
  • June
    • censorship, or diplomacy?
    • spelunking, pt 2
    • spelunking, pt 1
    • Are you a developer or a script-kiddie?
    • Dear Lazyweb: Proc disassembly in 1.9?
    • PLEASE try out miniunit 1.2
    • Yay! Four Thousand!
  • May
    • ARGH
    • https/ssl warning cleanup
  • April
    • one more thing
    • must vs will
    • deny, refute, debunk
    • miniunit needs a new name
    • Speaking at GoRuCo
    • The Plan
    • ugly blog for a while
    • I’d die of typing
  • March
    • Lookie! Test Status Matrix Thingy!
    • Removing duplicates from OmniFocus
    • Reason #437 why Phil Hagelburg rocks
    • Current Status Report
  • February
    • dropping 1.8.2 support
    • Softies on Rails: Rake is my new F5
    • hoe - remove un/install commands?
    • BusScheme is a lie!
    • adding search engine feeds to netnewswire
  • January
    • ZenTest 3.9.0: now with more Evil
    • Hoe 1.5: author and email are now required
    • Hoe 1.5: Rakefile before and after
    • Unexpected trip to the great white north
    • Have fun with this one...
    • treetop got a home
    • rubinius failing to link?
    • ZenTest Überness
    • Worst Regexp I’ve Ever Written
• 2007
  • December
    • rubyconf 2007 talks now online, except mine
    • Testing for ruby 1.8 and 1.9 using multiruby
    • New Rule
    • been quiet lately
    • No Longer Secret
  • November
    • Music to Code by
    • My RejectConf Talk
    • RubyConf 2007
  • October
    • RubyConf 2007... gah!
    • OOPSLA... damn
    • Vlad Hanging on you?
    • Exporting Keynote 3 as PDF
  • September
    • R2L < Rails
    • emacs is über
    • readability vs. speed
    • Seattle.rb batting 1000?
  • August
    • Vlad 1.1 is Approaching, the Heavens Sing and Send us a Sign
    • whew that was close
    • Flogging the World
    • When good tests go bad
    • #rubinius
    • RubyHitSquad: 4 days of intense fun
  • July
    • so. freakin’. cool. AWESOME autotest plugins
    • rejectconf has become a self-sustaining monster
    • at icanhasruby tonight
    • how irc feels too much of the time
    • [ANN/PIMP] Ruby Certificate Program @ University of Washington This Fall
    • Applescript is a PITA: Exporting Keynote as PDF
    • Argh! Stop being “clever”!
    • STIW4: Confessions of an Info-Junkie
    • Job: Eric and I Just Gave Notice
    • Ruby Course - Interested in Reviewing?
  • June
    • Ruby Curriculum
    • DB population: more autotest vs. rake issues.
    • YARR! Thar be mutiny!
    • A Sad Day
    • autotest freaking out? Try -v and nuke the extras
  • May
    • image_science and deployment
    • FozWorks: Validating Fixtures
    • autotest/rspec/rubygems problems
    • autotest 3.6.0 and rspec
    • Dr Nic - Functional Testing using a Matrix to cover all edge cases [video]
    • “RejectConf was worth the RailsConf fee”
    • FREE GEEK Freak Girl at RejectConf
    • rejectconf wrapup
    • RejectConf 2007 Final Details
    • “wow that is a lot” vs feeling overwhelmed
    • heckle gets more evil inside
    • rejectconf is a go, we have a venue!
    • functional_test_matrix gets a nice little boost
    • RejectConf 2, electric boogaloo
    • Gojko Adzic - The Poka-Yoke principle and how to write better software
  • April
    • autotest plugins
    • Maintainable Software: DRY up testing in Rails with Autotest
    • how to use rspec rails plugin with zentest
    • I doubt I’ll have another release of ZenHacks, so.... STIW4
    • Functional Test Matrix, a visualization
    • Functional Test Matrix, cont. (sorta)
    • Released toggle.el v 1.2 and autotest.el 1.0 beta 2
    • Functional Test Matrix
    • My Availability
    • emacs autotest integration
  • March
    • toggle.el
    • STIW3 - IMDB’s Top 20 Worst Actors
    • Sharing gems in multiruby
    • what the hell is wrong with subversion??!!??
    • just in case I didn’t blog it
    • That Stupid Thing I Wrote the Other Day, part 2
    • That Stupid Thing I Wrote The Other Day, part 1
    • hoedown
    • ...and the 100th is:
    • Who will be the 100th?
    • autotest bindings
    • autotest for emacs
    • locate and spotlight
    • Adding blogging to hoe.
  • February
    • refactoring tip: how to deal with failure overload
    • burnout and the late night rant
    • Control your emacs frames programatically
    • New Category: Emacs
    • Notes on Heckle
  • January
    • OOPS! I released again!
    • FreeImage on OSX
    • STI and Abstract Classes Driving You Nuts?
    • been quiet lately
    • 2006 in Review
• 2006
  • December
    • rubyforge now supports rsync!!
    • Hate RMagick? Get Science! ImageScience!
  • November
    • rake passes but autotest fails?
  • October
    • Evan Phoenix and Rubinius has a blog/home
    • Heckle: Another Rubyconf Hack
    • Unattended Hoes
    • 4 releases went out the door
    • Over-polishing the gem
  • September
    • CSS for layout? bah! Use ASCII art!
    • Talk at NYC.rb went well
    • Recursive Functions in RubyInline
    • Farmer Ted uses Hoe to beat Rake (and RubyGems)
    • RubyInline 3.6.0 Released (finally)
    • In NYC for the 26th
    • Coming Up for Air
    • ERB made faster (by about 40%?)
    • ruby quine slightly smaller than python quine
    • RubyInline Myths
  • August
    • ruby memory visualizer
    • as seen on IRC
    • risearch getting popular
    • I miss perl’s -B
    • New and Improved: better full text searching for ri/rdoc/gems
    • full text searching for ri content
    • Upgrade rails now
    • using ZenTest on rails
    • you might just fit here...
    • Writing C Extensions, Improved
  • July
    • people are stupid
    • Autotest no longer sucks!
    • Alas... not speaking at rubyconf 2006
    • ZenObfuscate now available
  • June
    • RubyConf 2006 Proposal (draft): Electric Kool-aid Acid Testing or Drinking the Kool-aid
    • Applescript: Nuke Ancient Events - make iSync faster/happier
  • May
    • PSA
    • “so simple it can’t be wrong”
    • why not perl?
    • ruby obfuscator is getting very very close
    • How #ruby-lang approximates the corporate environment
  • April
    • ZenTest doco
    • #caboose
    • autotest in action
    • SDForum SubEthaEdit Notes
    • Where is our “magic-removal branch”?
    • Test Driven Design for Ruby and Rails
    • Silicon Valley Ruby Conference
    • 1000 downloads of ZenTest!
    • It’s the process, stupid...
    • Zombies!!!
    • CanadaOnRails, day 2, shared notes
    • CanadaOnRails, day 1, shared notes
    • You know you’re an addict when...
    • ZenTest
  • March
    • Good ZenTest links
    • making functional test failures readable
    • great hacking tonight
    • obfuscated hacking
    • multiruby is awesome
    • #ruby-lang
    • Coming Soon: multiruby
    • Best of both worlds
  • February
    • blog.segment7.net
    • UberOmniAppleScript
    • catching up
  • January
    • Why Can’t I be Mormon??
    • Teach Me Something...
    • move over test/unit
    • Seattle PHP Weenies, Part 2, the revenge--this time, it’s personal!
    • I have dinner, and mortally offend local PHP group...
• 2005
  • December
    • YAY! 1.8.4 preview 3 fixes YAML!
    • 304 Not Modified for Rails
    • Inline::ObjC
    • Splat is good for you
    • Overriding url_for for Fun and Profit
  • November
    • rubyholic v1.0 is live
    • New Guest Blogger!
    • old milestone list--for reference
    • I don’t need this emacs function anymore... but you might like it
  • October
    • OOPSLA/RubyConf wrapup
    • RubyConf 2005 Slides Hosted
    • #rubyconf comments during Polishing Ruby presentation
    • RubyConf 2005
    • looking forward to RubyConf... desperately
  • September
    • Zero to Rails in 2 minutes
    • Getting closer
  • August
    • Major Milestone in US Ruby History
  • July
    • Too Much Spam
    • Rash of Ruby Releases
  • June
    • RubyConf, Here I Come!
    • ZenTest and unit_diff
  • May
    • RubyGems Hackfest Weekend 1: More Details
    • RubyGems Hackfest Weekend 1 Complete!
    • The gun is good.
    • Sometimes a mascot is a bad thing
    • RubyToRubyC - ruby’s first real obfuscator?
  • April
    • Ruby Go Zoom Zoom
    • Any rubyists in Berkeley / SF?
    • Space vs Time
    • Yay! Two Thousand!
  • March
    • Meet the Fam’
    • OpenPlanning
    • PragDave wants to have my lovechild!
    • Toy: nopaste
    • making progress on metaruby and ruby2c
    • Do you have a passion for testing?
  • February
    • MuffDaddy! The Ultimate Rapper! (Word)
    • Stoopid Simple Graphing Library
    • new mascot for parsetree!
    • New mailing list for parsetree
    • more progress than you can shake a stick at
    • RubyToRuby
    • Refax the Automatic Refactoring Engine, improved
    • ruby2c and ParseTree RDoc is online
    • Releasing ruby2c 1.0.0 beta 1
    • Releasing ParseTree 1.3.3
  • January
    • ruby2c mailing list
    • January Seattle.rb is crazy
    • R2C, RSN (no really)
    • An Introduction to Ruby2c - Automatic Translation of Ruby Code to C
    • Parse Tree Visualization
    • My Latest Projects - ZenLibrary and Graffle2SQL
    • Initial musings on this blog