June 27th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I formally release MongoMapper, a high level wrapper similar to ActiveRecord, but for MongoDB.

June 22nd, 2009

Posted by John

In which I show how to use a Ruby implementation of JSONQuery to test JSON in Rails apps.

June 8th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I summarize my favorite points from an old, but awesome article.

June 3rd, 2009

Posted by John

In which I provide an intro to MongoDB and it’s awesomeness.

May 18th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I wax poetic about the trendy new addition to the Twitter gem.

May 15th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I show the difference between include and extend when working with modules in Ruby.

May 11th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I show the difference between a class method and an instance method.

May 3rd, 2009

Posted by John

In which I note that I’ll be at RailsConf 2009.

April 23rd, 2009

Posted by John

In which I discuss some recent updates to the site.

April 20th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I discuss how I added simple permissions into flightcontrolled.com an app I created and how cool clearance, shoulda, factory girl and paperclip are.

April 5th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I show off the rewritten Twitter gem and an example app that takes advantage of it.

April 1st, 2009

Posted by John

In which I release a new gem that allows parsing XML or JSON with a simple, consistent API.

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March 28th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I attempt to explain OAuth in simple terms and what it is good for.

March 26th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I release a new gem named Columbus that auto-discovers feed urls.

March 25th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I show how easy it is now to create ruby gems that wrap APIs, using Google Weather as an example.

March 24th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I show all the dirty secrets of custom matchers using matchy.

March 23rd, 2009

Posted by John

In which I show an example of how to use HTTParty to consume the MyMileMarker undocumented API.

March 12th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I describe simple guidelines for contributing to other people’s open source projects.

March 4th, 2009

Posted by John

In which I revive clogging by presenting a simple class that follows a limited number of redirects on its journey to an endpoint.

March 1st, 2009

Posted by John

In which I mention my first time in print, an article for the first issue of Rails magazine.

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