Instiki is a really cool wiki server from David Heinemeier Hansson. It is one of the easiest wiki servers to setup and run that I have seen. Here’s what I did. First download the tar or zip file (as you need) from here. Then … $ tar zxvf instiki-0.3.1.tgz (lot of output omitted) $ ruby instiki.rb 2500 Now you have a wiki server running...

Instiki is a really cool wiki server from David Heinemeier Hansson. It is one of the easiest wiki servers to setup and run that I have seen. Here’s what I did. First download the tar or zip file (as you need) from here. Then … $ tar zxvf instiki-0.3.1.tgz (lot of output omitted) $ ruby instiki.rb 2500 Now you have a wiki server running...

I’ve updated the site with several new items. First, a new CSS scheme. I think it makes the pages look a little sharper. A wiki is now available for feedback. See it at onestepback.org/cgi-bin/osbwiki.pl. There’s not much in the wiki yet, but I intend to use it for feedback and posting sample code snippets. Someone on the Rake mailing...

I’ve updated the site with several new items. First, a new CSS scheme. I think it makes the pages look a little sharper. A wiki is now available for feedback. See it at onestepback.org/cgi-bin/osbwiki.pl. There’s not much in the wiki yet, but I intend to use it for feedback and posting sample code snippets. Someone on the Rake mailing...

Here’s a sweet little module from Ara T. Howard. It is called Session and will run a shell session under the control of a Ruby script. Standard output and standard error are captured by the session object and made available to the script. How about a quick example … bash = Session::Bash.new stdout, stderr = bash.execute "ls" p stdout #...

Here’s a sweet little module from Ara T. Howard. It is called Session and will run a shell session under the control of a Ruby script. Standard output and standard error are captured by the session object and made available to the script. How about a quick example … bash = Session::Bash.new stdout, stderr = bash.execute "ls" p stdout #...

Perrin Fowler has a few words of wisdom to share on what can and cannot be tested. I especially like his closing remark....

Perrin Fowler has a few words of wisdom to share on what can and cannot be tested. I especially like his closing remark....

Martin Fowler shares some thoughts on Specification by Example and compares it with Design by Contract. I’ve written on DbC and Test First before, but Fowler expresses his ideas so much better.

Martin Fowler shares some thoughts on Specification by Example and compares it with Design by Contract. I’ve written on DbC and Test First before, but Fowler expresses his ideas so much better.

I see a number of Rublog users have upgraded their blogs look and feel. (See Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Glenn Vandenburg). It leaves this site looking a wee bit plain now. Hey Guys! Care to share your template and CSS files?

I see a number of Rublog users have upgraded their blogs look and feel. (See Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Glenn Vandenburg). It leaves this site looking a wee bit plain now. Hey Guys! Care to share your template and CSS files?

I see a number of Rublog users have upgraded their blogs look and feel. (See Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Glenn Vandenburg). It leaves this site looking a wee bit plain now. Hey Guys! Care to share your template and CSS files?

I see a number of Rublog users have upgraded their blogs look and feel. (See Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Glenn Vandenburg). It leaves this site looking a wee bit plain now. Hey Guys! Care to share your template and CSS files?

Several folks (e.g. Kevin Altis, Aaron Brady) have written about a single line web browser in Python. I wondered what it would look like in Ruby. Here’s one answer…...