Rails Rumble, a Ruby on Rails programming contest, has been officially announced. Basically it is a groups of 1-4 people who are given 48 hours to build and deploy a Ruby on Rails application.
Tag: ruby
gs_phone – Ruby program to remotely configure Grandstream Voip phone
I have just released version 0.0.2 of my gs_phone Ruby program but I have not yet written about it yet so think of this as your introduction to my program. What is it? It is a set of Ruby scripts that can be used from the command line to administer a group of Grandstream Voip …
Check Your Services with Ruby
I just got my Pickaxe v2 book in the mail today and have already put it to good use writing a script to check that the services for a host are up and responding. It uses many of the libraries included with Ruby but also another library ‘net-ping’ which you can get with a gem …
Ruby and Rails Jobs
Just in case someone has missed it there is a website that has a list of Ruby and Ruby on Rails job postings. I have been tracking it since it started and have noticed a surge in posting recently. Eric Davis
Get a text backup of your Typo
After using Typo for some time now, I wanted a raw backup of my many posts. So I used some Ruby to extract of that information. First I wanted a raw text file of my content. $ script/runner -e production "Content.find(:all, :conditions => 'type = \"Article\"'). \ each {|i| puts '##########'; puts i.title; puts ''; …