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Pay No Attention: Behind the Magic of Ruby DSLs

Working in Ruby on Rails for the first time can seem a bit daunting. But the magic of Ruby DSLs has proven to be more than just hocus pocus.

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Monitoring Past Due AR with Xero and Slack

I've created a Ruby script that reports on past due accounts receivable in Xero, and automatically publishes that information to Slack.

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Make Monkey Patching in Ruby Less Risky with Refinements

Extending Ruby's built-in classes is convenient but dangerous. Use refinements to get fine grained control over your monkey patches.

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Building Concurrent Primitives in Ruby without a Queue

A Queue isn't always what we want. So, how can we build our own primitives that are still nice and Thread safe? Mutex + ConditionVariable + data

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Ruby Queue Pop with Timeout, v.2 (Correctly Handling Spurious Wakeups)

I wrote a queue implementation that provide a timeout to the pop method. Unfortunately, it has a bug caused by spurious wakeups. Here's the fix.

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Control Flow in Ruby Blocks

I recently found myself needing to return early from a block passed into a method in Ruby. The way to do this is fairly simple and obvious in hindsight.

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From Ruby to Crystal: A Quick Look

I'll definitely keep an eye on Crystal as it comes out of its beta phase. The syntax is familiar and easy to pick up and the performance is great.

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Parsing Excel Files with Ruby

I'll discuss the different types of Excel files and introduce some of the Ruby libraries that exist for working with them.

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Accessing Google Sheets with Ruby and Google Apps Script

How I built a Google Sheets API that my Ruby script could use to access Google Docs, giving me more flexibility for any other Ruby scripts I might create.

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Monadt – Algebraic Data Types and Monads in Ruby, Part 2: Monads

Bringing more functional programming to Ruby via Monads and Algebraic Data Types with the new Monadt Ruby gem.

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Monadt – Algebraic Data Types and Monads in Ruby, Part 1: ADTs

The monadt gem adds support for algebraic data types and monads to Ruby, while attempting to be as readable and Ruby-like as possible.

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Windows Socket Functions in Ruby Extensions

On using Windows socket functions (such as WSARecv, and WSASend) inside Ruby extensions on Windows.

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