labria's ruby blog

New TLD

Seeing how new Top Level Domains get introduced all the time, and how .com is misused, I had a idea: .app TLD Lets face it, we need it. lighthouseapp.com, kaleidoscopeapp.com, and I'm sure you can name a few more each. Wouldn't it be nice to have a domain for your application? Be it a web-app [...]

Mac OS X Lion and Ruby (or, NoRuby)

I've installed the Lion DP twice. Once (DP1) as an upgrade to Snow Leopard, and the second time on a clean partition. You can surely find all about Lion in the interwebs (it rocks, except some quirks), so I'll just rant about one thing that is interesting to me: Lion and Ruby. First, about DP1 [...]

Google won (in a small way)

I work in a web-company. The browser is our one and only platform. We should know exactly which one we use, right? Well, seems we do not. Out of 60 people who took a internal survey, 36 said their browser was "Chrome". Almost all the rest uses Firefox, some Safari and one or two IE. [...]

I’m going v6

After a few hours of testing ipv6 from home yesterday, I decided that who else except us, IT pros, will move the technology forward. So, I set up a tunnel to my server today, and http://ipv6.blog.startika.com/ is now live. (You do need to have ipv6 connectivity to view it) This way, when the day comes, [...]

Opscode

Today I got the best snail-mail letter in years. Background: I recently joined the Wix.com team as a Systems And Deployment engineer, and started working with the chef server management system. After a few days I wrote a tiny patch, and requester developer access to the Opscode JIRA to submit it. (I'm currently working on a much [...]

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 does it. And to [...]

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 with mochiweb. It's nice, [...]

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 almost nothing, [...]

My first working Erlang code.

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

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 the second to your [...]