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Today I released the Ruby Gem Poro v0.1.0. It is a first working version of an extensible persistence engine. Currently it only has suppor...

Names Everywhere I see this happen often: Someone creates a list of items with a "name" column. The backend team uses the name...

[EDIT (2010-JAN-16): The original postgres gem has been replaced by ruby-pg . If you are having the problem below, try installing the pg ge...

That's A Big Process! I like my HTML RDocs. They are easy to browse and search. Unfortunately, unlike ruby 1.8.x, which made compili...

Model railroaders frequently like to talk about scale speeds, and often quote the scale speeds at which their models run. However, it is ve...

If you spend much time around railroad modelers, they tend to talk a lot about scale, and particularly in reference to speed. Being a phys...

My brother and I are, on the side, developing some software for our own enjoyment. However we take our development effort seriously, and ha...