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Ruby Manor

Date November 23, 2008

Yesterday I spoke at and attended Ruby Manor. It was a grass route conference with the attendees determining the agenda and the organising duo aiming to keep costs to an absolute minimum. So successful were they infact, and as one twitterer aptly points out, that for an amazing £12 you got a [...]

ActiveRecord outside of Rails (and YAML)

Date July 16, 2008

Lately I’ve been working on a stock trading program that automatically trades and saves the results to a database (more details to follow in the not too distant future…)  Naturally the choice of language was ruby, and for the front end, a rails application.  Once coded, I bundled the stock trading program into the rails [...]

MERB: The new rails?

Date June 7, 2008

I presented on MERB last weekend at Barcamp London 4 I’ve been using the technology the last two months at Bablo so it was good to share my experience with other users. With it being quite a bleeding edge technology there was just a small gang of us there but there was plenty [...]