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The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your application. In this hour and ten minute screencast, you’ll learn the basics of Cucumber. You’ll learn the syntax, organization, and philosophy of writing...

PeepCode has teamed up with Gregg Pollack, Jason Seifer, and David A. Black of Envycasts to provide you with their current library of screencasts! Jump into the future of Ruby with this two part series on the distinguishing new features of Ruby 1.9. Topics covered in this 41-minute screencast include:...

PeepCode has teamed up with Gregg Pollack, Jason Seifer, and David A. Black of Envycasts to provide you with their current library of screencasts! Jump into the future of Ruby with part 2 of this two part series on the distinguishing new features of Ruby 1.9. Topics covered in this...

As a developer, you’re always looking for ways to write faster applications with less code. The Sinatra framework hits a sweet spot for writing small, fast web applications and web services with Ruby. In this 64 minute screencast, Dan Benjamin teaches the basics of Sinatra: configuration, handlers, blocks, and templates....

PeepCode has teamed up with Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer of Envycasts to provide you with their current library of screencasts! Learn how to write faster Ruby applications and gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to scale Ruby. Topics covered: This 41-minute screencast also comes with a PDF...

by Alex Vollmer and Geoffrey Grosenbach MacRuby takes the “almost” out of “almost a desktop experience.” With MacRuby, you can write real Mac OS X desktop applications with Ruby. MacRuby is a Ruby interpreter built by Apple on top of Objective-C. Unlike other scripting interfaces to the Cocoa frameworks, MacRuby...

by Cody Fauser, ActiveMerchant committer and Shopify developer. Most online businesses need to receive payment. If you’re developing with Ruby, the standard for credit card authorization and capture is ActiveMerchant. ActiveMerchant provides a consistent interface to over 30 gateways all around the world and has processed millions of dollars of...

Technical editing by Scott Stevenson of CocoaDevCentral and Theocacao. If you know Ruby and you want to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, you’re in a great place to start! This concise and content-packed 80-minute screencast will teach you what you need to know to start programming...

Haml blesses those who use it with freedom from the verbosity of HTML and from the banality of un-programmable CSS. You can get straight to work thinking about your code instead of trudging through the boilerplate of angle brackets and closing tags. With Sass your CSS becomes smart. Much, much...

The classic Gnu Emacs text editor is an incredibly powerful piece of software that has been used by thousands of programmers over the last few decades. Many alpha geeks have recently been giving Emacs a second look as well. Emacs Lisp expert Phil Hagelberg prepared the script and accompanying code...