Ruby

Writing Throwaway code, Part II: Moving to interactive notebooks in Ruby and Visual Studio Code

Writing Throwaway Code, Part I: A file at a time using Ruby and Bundler inline

Accessing as400 databases with Ruby, Java, and the RubyJavaBridge

Originally posted August 24, 2006

iSeries systems and Ruby are separate universes right now; I know of no native Ruby way to connect to an AS400 system. However, with…

Streaming Data to S3 with Ruby

Originally posted March 29, 2006

One of the downsides of the ruby S3 example code is that it doesn’t support streaming of data (it loads the entire file into memory). It turns out, however, that all that is needed to stream data…

Ruby Oracle DBI ActiveRecord in 7 steps

Originally posted March 22, 2006

Setting up ruby to work with Oracle seems to be a pain for a lot of people. Here are the steps I follow to set it up on a linux box from nothing to Active Record or DBI in 7 steps.

Credit Card Type and Luhn Check in Ruby

Originally posted on March 15, 2006

I was looking at implementing a luhn and credit card type check the other day in java and I noticed that there seems to be a lack of code for doing this in ruby. So I figured…

Cleaning Up Stale Rails Sessions (removing ruby_sess files)

Originally posted January 8, 2006

I’m not sure if something isn’t set up correctly of if this is just a fact of life with rails but the sessions it creates never seem to go away…

Cleaning Up Rails Sessions, Revisited

Originally posted September 16, 2006

In an earlier post, we detailed a method for removing stale Rails session files. In more recent version of Rails, there is a Rake task built in for this administration task.