Category: Ruby

Ruby Is Back To The Basics – Modules & More Are De-mystified

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby, Tutorials

I often teach Ruby at corporates, take some classes at colleges and speak at some events. Its great when I encounter aggressive and passionate programmers who question and counter question me at every step. These are some of the questions that I have often encountered regarding modules How do I know from an object which … Continue reading Ruby Is Back To The Basics – Modules & More Are De-mystified

How Well Sencha Touch MVC Application Works With Rails

by Swapnil Chincholkar, posted in Mobile Development, Ruby

For sometime, we have been toying around with different frameworks to build cross-platform mobile applications. Our latest research was with Sencha Touch. This post is a tutorial to get kick-started. Installation To run Sencha Touch application you need: A running web server. I used a Rails server running on localhost:3000 A WebKit based browser like … Continue reading How Well Sencha Touch MVC Application Works With Rails

Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby, Search

IndexTank got acquired by LinkedIn just a while back and I received a newsletter saying that they may discontinue services in 6 months. My tweet about this got a few responses from Pat Allen (@pat - the creator of Flying Sphinx) and others, which ended up with me promising a brief comparison between Thinking Sphinx … Continue reading Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets