Pops up a dialog asking for a search query, then runs grep on the selected dir in the project drawer and shows the results in a HTML output window with the search query highlighted. Just have a project with 8000 files in it and TextMates » Find in Project « command is just too slow […]
Yesterday, I stumbled across the Bogosort sorting algorithm. The example implementations looked horrible so I tried to implement it in a short and readable way, in Ruby of course. Here is my first and only attempt of a Ruby Bogosort. # Use: ruby bogosort.rb a b c def sorted for i in (0..$array.length-2) return false […]
I’ve read a couple of Ruby and Ruby on Rails books now and for those who wonder which book is right for them, I want to give recommendations. Ruby Books: My favourite ruby book is the “The Ruby Programming Language” from O’Reillys shelf. It is written by David Flanagan (author of Javascript, The Definitive Guide) […]
When Pavel microbenchmarked every language he came across it turned out as expected, Ruby was the slowest language in all three micro tests. It was really embarrassing. I was curious if this was about to change in future versions of Ruby so I checked out the current Ruby 1.9 version from their svn repository svn […]
When I started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails I was introduced to the concept of symbols. You are using a lot of symbols in Rails and it feels somewhat natural after a while but when you try to explain newbies what these symbols are actually good for, it is really hard to describe. It […]