labria's ruby blog

erlgen deprecated.

I created my erlgen tool because I lacked something to do the job. Now i'm deprecating it, because such a tool was written. Welcome Rebar! It's not simpy a generator, but a swiss knife for the complete erlang application lifecycle. Generation, dependencies, building, dialyzer, eunit, release, you name it — Rebar ...

Erlang application generator

In the ruby world, we're used to code generators. Take rails, or the jeweler gem. When we start a project, we rarely start it from scratch, usually we have a skeleton to start with. In the hardcore Erlang world, it's different. I found only one erlang project generator, the one bundled ...

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 ...