labria's ruby blog

Naglfar release

I finally found time in my schedule to release the Naglfar project. I've been thinking for a long time of a project to use the beautiful name, and I suddenly realized that the name itself is quite enough for me =) To install, just do the usual: gem install naglfar The gem does ...

My first working Erlang code.

I wrote my first working bit of Erlang code. Wasn't much code, actually. Here it is: out(A) -> {ok, Challenge} = queryvar(A,"hub.challenge"), {html,io_lib:format('~s', [Challenge])}. Wow... my highlighter doesn't even support Erlang! now it does This a complete and finished piece of code, yes. If you heard of ...

A wonderful way to list your project files

This article is published as a reply to the last few articles on the thoughtbot blog. Some time or another during the project development you may wonder: «What files does my project include?» or «Why am I a Star Wars fan anyway?». This article will focus on the first question, leaving ...

Freckle API.

UPD: Freckle updated the API and docs. The new ones are here. I'm a Freckle user, and I love the service. The only thing I really miss is a simple client to store my time entries without visiting the site. So, I sat down to write that simple client app, knowing ...

Weird RSpec practice.

I recently found myself doing a wierd thing. While writing specs i add this spec to the end of the file: it "should fail" do raise "foo" end The reason to do it? Simple: every time i have all the specs passing in the current file, autospec begins running all the specs ...

A new version of my First App. updated

After quite some time with the docs and google (and help on IRC from some a nice guy named Sidnicious) I finally made my app behave as it should, and now it shortens the URLs you drop on it (as was requested by one of my very few users). UPD: It ...

Heroku pricing.

Heroku announced their pricing today. As with all rails-centric hosting solutions, the price is sky high. You can get a LOT more if you just go and get Amazon EC2 and set everything up yourself. Yes, they do provide you with automatic and painless scaling, but for the price difference I ...

My first Cocoa app.

I love Objective-C. I understood that while writing my first app, a dead simple bit.ly client. The app is a bleeding beta yet, but it works. The thing is simple, you copy a link, run the app (from the dock, its faster to do it that way), and you get a short ...

At last!

They made it! Phusion has released passenger with nginx support. No more bloated apache installs, hooray! I've been waiting for this since the day passenger was first released. UPD: well, it has some issues as of now, but I'm sure it's all gonna be fixed soon enough!

Status update.

It's been awhile since I last wrote here. Quite a lot happened in the meantime. I now work at a really nice russian company named Getalime. It's small, very friendly and cozy. Funny thing is that 2 weeks after joining it I moved to live in Israel, so I never met ...