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How to Create Terminal Progress Indicators in Ruby
When you’re developing a terminal application, it’s usually helpful to indicate the progress of a long running task. Over the years, I’ve done this in a number of ways. Most of them involve printing...
read articleA Brief Introduction to Ruby's Kernel.fork
Recently, a coworker asked if I could help with manipulating some large CSV files. Each file contained approximately 1.2 million records and was over 200 megabytes in size. I’ve never worked with such...
read articleParsing Bookmarks With Nokogiri
I’ve been working on a feature for one of my side projects that requires parsing bookmarks files that have been exported from a web browser. Most browsers export bookmarks in the Netscape Bookmark...
read articleGetting Started With Authlogic on Rails 3
Authlogic is “a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution”. I’ve used it successfully in several Rails projects. It’s easy to setup, it’s easy to test, it’s flexible, and it has...
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