Monthly Archives: August 2008

rQuote – Ruby on Rails Stock Quote Plugin

By John | Published: August 29, 2008
I merged some stock quoting stuff I had into a Rails plugin today. If you’d like to be able to simply grab real time stock quotes in your Rails app, this will do the job. Pretty much any stock symbol will work and you can enter as many as you’d like, you’ll get [...]
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One year older

By John | Published: August 25, 2008
I’m now one year older. I am 25. It is one of those ‘cup is half full or half empty’ ages. On one hand I’m halfway to thirty. On the other hand, I’m probably entering my prime. I’ll go with my prime. Sometimes I look at the past year and I [...]
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Testing Your Apps.

By John | Published: August 23, 2008
I’ve been really putting off using Rspec. Unfortunately ( and like the vast majority or programmers out there) I have not been writing enough tests for my apps. When I did write them, they were using Rail’s built in Test::Unit library, which, many will say… sucks. Plus, honestly, they were half assed. So, [...]
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rDigg – Ruby on Rails Digg API plugin

By John | Published: August 14, 2008
I’ve sort of finished up rDigg today. It’s to the point I’m comfortable letting other people start to play with it anyways. As you’d expect, rDigg is a Digg API wrapper in the form of a Ruby on Rails plugin. It still needs some work, but works pretty well. For example: #create new Rdigg object digg [...]
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Simple Meta Programming in Ruby

By John | Published: August 10, 2008
Metaprogramming.  What a lovely buzz word.  I guess I’ve heard it enough and knew what the short definition is. Metaprogramming is code that writes code.  I think it is one of those things I just never thought about, even though I had used concepts and even written some before without realizing it until recently. Here [...]
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