Archive for the ‘Ruby’ Category

ivy4r using Apache Ivy with Ruby

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Our company uses Apache Ivy for dependency management and tracks all our artifacts including EARs and WARs with Ivy. Ivy is great and provides a lot of great features but depends on Apache Ant. Making builds with Ant is a pain, because Ant is no programming language and misses a ...

Using hoe and jeweler for rubyforge and github

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I asked myself how to get started using github as a development platform but still support rubyforge as the main server for stable gem versions? First I tried to use only hoe but did not get a gemspec file out of it. So I added jeweler to get a gemspec via ...

Ruby RDoc ressources

Friday, June 12th, 2009

I quite often search for infos about RDoc, so here are some useful links. How to write RDoc comments RDoc Homepage The homepage links Ruby Standard Lib documentation links from the standard library documentation rdoc.info allows you to generate RDoc on the fly for Github projects and browse it as well How to browse RDoc ...

JRuby access to C libraries using FFI

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

With the new release of JRuby 1.1.4 it is possible to use the rubinius FFI API. With FFI you can access C libraries via plain ruby code. To get started with FFI the only documentation I have found is provided by Free Minds blog entry. Additional info may be posted ...