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jRuby

JrSerialPort: Connect to a Serial Port in JRuby via RXTX

Simple but effective JRuby code that simplifies the use of RXTX for basic serial port communications, with sample terminal.
jRuby

Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster

How using Hamster's efficient, immutable, thread-safe collections can prevent ConcurrencyError exceptions in JRuby.
Web Apps

A Lightweight “CMS” Using Ruby and Google Drive

What do you do if your content authors don't know HTML? Have them enter content into a Google Drive spreadsheet, and use a Ruby gem to convert it. Here's how.
Ruby

Convenient Trick for Tolerance-based Test Assertions Using #ish

Enabling the #ish syntax to ease the writing of automated Ruby system and integration tests that rely on fuzzy or tolerance-based assertions.
Ruby

Is Your Application Running with Ruby – Slow?

Ruby may not be compiled for optimal performance with RVM. I benchmarked Ruby, and compiled Ruby with optimization flags to improve performance.
Ruby

Collecting Metrics from Ruby Processes with Zabbix Trappers

How to set up Zabbix to collect various forms of information (from numerical metrics to arbitrary strings, to log data) via the Zabbix sender protocol.
Ruby on Rails

ActiveRecord Black Magic

ActiveRecord's query interface is very powerful, but sometimes it will not generate the SQL you expect. Here's one approach to overriding this.
Embedded Systems

Conversing JSON with Qt and Ruby

A simple command processing engine in C++ using Qt and QtScriptEngine for parsing JSON. The server, which initiates simple exchanges, is written trivially in Ruby.
Ruby

PiecePipe Examples: Map, Aggregation, & Group-By

PiecePipe allows you to focus on the flow of data without worrying about the iteration and glue code. Here's how to use it for map, aggregation, and group-by.
Ruby

When Is a Set Better Than an Array in Ruby?

Since I discovered the Ruby Set class, I've found myself stopping where I would normally use a Ruby Array and considering whether a Set would better suit my needs.
Developer Tools

Using Thor to Build a Command Line Interface

Here's a simple command line interface (created in Thor) that provides grep-like functionality around Ruby's regular expression functionality.
Ruby on Rails

Making Rails and TeamCity Play Well Together

After much experimentation, I’m actually happy with how my Rails project is being tested with TeamCity.

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