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Ruby and Laszlo
I first heard of Ruby at the second Lightweight Languages Workshop 2, where Matz and I were both speakers. This was first public disclosure of the then-proprietary Laszlo platform language. I’m afraid...
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openlaszlo.rb is a Ruby library for compiling OpenLaszlo programs. I use it to build this, this, and the toolbar here. This article describes how to use it with Rake. Update: This is now available as a...
View ArticlereWork: an online workbench for regular expressions
reAnimator got me interested in writing something that would let you use regular expressions. That something is reWork. This web page has a couple of fields where you can type in a regular expression...
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FizzBuzz Station
Uh oh! I overthought fizzbuzz: The following Ruby snippets aren’t quite the same as the automaton above (this Haskell version is actually closest to that), but here’s a couple of Regexp solutions in a...
View ArticleJavaScript Fu Rails Plugin
JavaScript Fu extends Rails with a few facilities to better integrate JavaScript into Rails development: 1. The notes and statistics rake tasks compass JavaScript files in the public/javascript...
View ArticleJCON: Ruby Gem for JSON type conformance
JCON (the JavaScript Conformance gem) tests JSON values against ECMAScript 4.0-style type definitions (PDF) such as string?, (int, boolean), or [string, (int, boolean), {x:double, y:double}?]. Usage...
View ArticleDB Content Rails Plugin
The DB Content Rails plugin adds tasks to save and restore database content. Usage -- dump the development database to db/archive/development-content.sql.gz rake db:content:dump -- load the dumped...
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