New gem released – Newgem

I’ve no idea what this is but its a rubbish name and a new release has been made.  I think it has something to do with GEMS?  Never mind. Go them: http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=27856 Oh – I think its 0.2.9.

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Latest Ruby WWW::Mechanize Released (0.7.8)

For those not knowing what I’m on about: Mechanize is a stunning little library which is great for automating web navigation and is especially suited to handling forms. The latest version addresses a couple of bugs and is available here: Mechanize.

Vimrecover – Nice Gem

Its easy to forget some of the best discoveries are made simply by browsing RubyForge.  This is now exception.  Its a nice little Ruby Gem to help Vim users to compare and manage their swp files.  These are produced as you’re editing a file and so if the session dies or there’s a crash then [...]

Twitter Green

I’ve just taken up using Twitter.  So far so good.  Two points though, one of which isn’t the fault of Twitter but: 1. DowningStreet doesn’t bloody shut up!! 2. The site has complained about being snowed under 3 times so far.  They could sort this easily by using Django instead of Rails. Other than that [...]

MOG – Ruby Music Lovers

Granted its a bit old but thought I’d throw this one into the air!  Tenuous link, but Rails + Music = MOG.  Similar to Last.fm but built using Ruby on Rails.  What does that mean?  Every self-respecting Ruby/Rails fan should have an account of course!

Ruby Forums List

I don’t get involved anywhere near as much in the Ruby community as I probably should but I thought I’d put together a listing of the top Ruby forums I’ve come across in my time: The Original Ruby Forum OCS Ruby Forum UK Ruby Forum SitePoint Ruby Forum MySQL Ruby Forum Nabble Forum Rails Forum [...]

Ruby YahooFinance Module

If you’ve seen my previous tutorial on using scRubyt to scour Yahoo Finance you may be interested in this. YahooFinance is a Ruby module built to much, much more. It can get varying level of Finance data for a given company. It happens to be the cornerstone of Grism – a desktop stock tracking system. [...]

Ruby Asterisk: 2 Libraries & 2 Docs

Just so the Asterisk-Ruby’ists don’t feel left out after my PHP Asterisk post here’s a useful list if you’re wanting to integrate Asterisk with your Ruby (on Rails) app: Adhearsion – Its a full framework on top of Asterisk built in Ruby. Think ‘RAGI-on-steroids’. RAGI – Ruby Asterisk Gateway Interface provides a Ruby interface to [...]

Ruby for Runners

If you’re that addicted to Ruby that you want to get a fix while out running or in the gym try these: Rubyverse Podcasts Ruby on Rails Podcasts