Subprocesses Part 9: Exec
Learn Ruby's `exec` method by building a tool that starts project-specific Apache instances
Subprocesses Part 5: SIGCHLD
Starting processes is one thing. Keeping track of them after they've started is another.
Email Template
In today's episode, we put together several of the small bits of Ruby lore we've learned in order to build a simple and pragmatic mail templating syst…
Parallel Fib
Last time around we introduced the Queue class. In this episode, we'll put it to work!
Client Session Object
In another peek into my ongoing behind-the-scenes work on RubyTapas, today I extract the responsibility for representing a logged-in screen-scraping u…
SAX
This episode takes a look at how to use the Nokogiri gem to extract data from large HTML documents without reading the whole document into memory.
Gem-Love Part 11
Finishing up my list of TODO items, today I address some structural coupling that my test stubs have revealed.
This is a live episode, so no script to…
Gem-Love Part 10
Note: This week RubyTapas moves to its new release schedule of two episodes a week. I've already sent out an update detailing the reason for the chan…
Screen Scraping Gateway
Today's episode tackles the problem of talking to a web app which has no published API, using the Mechanize screen-scraping gem. In the process, we'll…
Gem-Love Part 9
In today's concluding slice of this live-coding session, I wrap up my work on adding users to Gem-Love by TDDing the server side support for API keys.…