Category Archives: Ruby

Interacting with ActiveRecord through the Rails Console (irb) in Ununtu 10.10

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Chad Lung

Rails and Ruby have quickly grown in popularity over the past few years. I think a lot of Ruby’s growth no doubt can be attributed to Ruby on Rails. In this article I’m going to run over some of the … Continue reading →

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Install Ruby 1.9.2 (from source) and Rails 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Chad Lung

Although I believe using RVM is a better way to install and manage Ruby on Ubuntu (see my article on how to do that), you can however just install Ruby from source code. Today I’ll go over the steps to … Continue reading →

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Getting Flash Builder 4 (Flex) talking to Ruby, Passenger, Apache 2 with Sinatra on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Chad Lung

I’m going to build a very simple project that will allow a Flash Builder 4 project to talk to Sinatra. In the end you will have some simple starter code to call a Sinatra service, pass in a parameter as … Continue reading →

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Installing Ruby on Ubuntu 10.10 with RVM

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Chad Lung

RVM has quickly become one of the main ways to install Ruby. Even though the RVM documentation is very solid I’m going to walk through installing RVM and Ruby on a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10 (Desktop). Obviously if you … Continue reading →

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Building a socket server with EventMachine, Ruby, and Flash CS5

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Chad Lung

I recently began messing with EventMachine. On their GitHub page you can find some starter tutorials as well as instructions to get it installed. Today I’m going to build a simple socket server to allow Flash CS5 to communicate to … Continue reading →

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Setting up MongoDB on Ubuntu 10.04 and trying it out with Ruby

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Chad Lung

MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database written in C++. In this article I’m going to setup MongoDB on Ubuntu 10.04 and try a Ruby script against it.

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Getting Sinatra, Apache 2, and Phusion Passenger working together on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Chad Lung

Today I’m going to go over the steps you need to take to get a Sinatra web app working on Apache 2 with Phusion Passenger (mod_rails). If you haven’t done so already make sure to read my previous article on … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Chad Lung

Today I will be reviewing the recently published (August 2010) “Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby” written by Chang Sau Sheong and published by Packt Publishing.

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Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition, Phusion Passenger (mod_rails), and Apache 2 on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Chad Lung

Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Phusion Passenger is pretty simple. I’ll go over the steps you can take to install them onto Ubuntu 10.04. Ruby Enterprise Edition can increase the speed of your Ruby based web apps as well as … Continue reading →

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Building a Threaded Ruby Socket Server for Flash CS4

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Chad Lung

I haven’t seen many examples of connecting Adobe’s Flash to a Ruby socket server. I’ve seen several examples in Java, Python, Perl, etc. but not Ruby. Today I’m going to build a very simple threaded socket server that will work … Continue reading →

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