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Design Patterns in Ruby – A Book Review

27 May 08 • 0 comment

In short: This book is good, go buy it. In “Design Patterns in Ruby” Russ Olsen sets out to cover two distinct goals. First he introduces the idea of design patterns, and secondly he explores how the dynamic nature of Ruby allows patterns to be used with less effort than languages such as Java and [...]
Polymorphic Associations and Interfaces In Ruby/Rails

30 April 08 • 5 comments

I have been using a lot of polymorphic associations in rails recently. If you don’t know what they are, bear with me and I will explain in a moment. To really use a polymorphic association properly it’s vital to understand interfaces, which should be part of your daily bread and butter toolkit, but in a [...]
Rapid Prototyping for Java using JRuby: A Presentation

30 July 07 • 0 comment

On Thursday 30th of August I will be presenting a talk as part of the LRUG BOF (Birds of a Feather) session at NFJS, No Fluff Just Stuff. It will be my first time presenting outside of an academic conference and I am really looking forward to it. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m going to be talking about how [...]
Using JRuby to rapidly prototype changes in a Java codebase

23 July 07 • 0 comment

Today, as an exercise, I coded up a simple piece of java and ruby integration, via JRuby. The task I set myself was simple. Start with a java only application, and then use JRuby to rapidly prototype adding a new feature to it. I used my favourite sample application: A library with three entities, books, [...]