http://ruby.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Ruby GuideSite. http://z.about.com/f/lg/s10.gif http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2008-10-12T05:00:03Z Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/14/take-a-look-at-railsvim.htm With differing rules for highlighting and indenting, editing a Rails application can present a challenge for any text editor. Vim is a powerful text editor that utilizes syntax highlighting and... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/14/take-a-look-at-railsvim.htm Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:00:54 +0000 2008-10-14T05:00:54Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/12/do-you-have-class.htm Character class, that is. To ask anymore is delving into the murky realm of personal habits, which isn't really necessary! Whether or not you're a classy person, if you're... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/12/do-you-have-class.htm Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:00:03 +0000 2008-10-12T05:00:03Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/10/back-to-basics-what-is-ruby-anyway.htm When we say Back to Basics, today we really mean Back to Basics! It's all fine and good to give you an overview of how to create regular expressions,... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/10/back-to-basics-what-is-ruby-anyway.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:20 +0000 2008-10-10T05:00:20Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/08/5-must-know-features-in-ruby.htm Consider this: you're planning a party and need a way to keep track of all your guests, catering information and other miscellaneous details. How can you do that? Why,... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/08/5-must-know-features-in-ruby.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:00:29 +0000 2008-10-08T05:00:29Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/06/using-the-require-method.htm What's the difference between a quick script and a three hour project? The ability to quickly import some useful class into your program. At the heart of any scripting... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/06/using-the-require-method.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:46:46 +0000 2008-10-06T10:46:46Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/02/whats-new-with-yahoo-yahoo-user-interface-library-260.htm Ebay does it, Flickr does it, Amazon does it, YouTube does it and now you can too. Yesterday, Yahoo! released version 2.6.0 of the YUI library which,... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/10/02/whats-new-with-yahoo-yahoo-user-interface-library-260.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:55:01 +0000 2008-10-02T10:55:01Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/30/is-the-economic-crisis-having-an-effect-on-programmers.htm Like the rest of the nation, I've been paying close attention to the latest developments with the stock market and the economic bailout plan. As... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/30/is-the-economic-crisis-having-an-effect-on-programmers.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:29:11 +0000 2008-09-30T14:29:11Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/29/obama-and-mccain-arent-the-only-ones-making-conditional-statements.htm Last week, both McCain and Obama decided to place conditions on the emergency economic bailout plan. As you know conditions are simply a set of expressed criterion that need... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/29/obama-and-mccain-arent-the-only-ones-making-conditional-statements.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:02:26 +0000 2008-09-29T10:02:26Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/28/want-to-write-a-ruby-on-rails-guide.htm If you know a lot about Ruby and think you can impart that information to other users, you may want to check out the Rails Guide Hackfest. It's... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/28/want-to-write-a-ruby-on-rails-guide.htm Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:09:36 +0000 2008-09-28T12:09:36Z http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/23/presently-ill-have-to-learn-to-twitter.htm I knew this day would come sooner or later--I'm going to have to give up my fear of social networking sites and learn to Twitter. Why? Because... http://ruby.about.com/b/2008/09/23/presently-ill-have-to-learn-to-twitter.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:40:31 +0000 2008-09-23T11:40:31Z