Articles in The Standard Library

A Bug, Today Only

A small reminder that dates can be tricky…

Getting Code Ready for Ruby 1.9

I want to share some tips I learned converting code to run on Ruby 1.9…

PStore Meets YAML

For more standard library fun, let me show you how to get two of my favorite data storage tools to play nice with each other…

The Books are Wrong About Logger

They said it couldn't be done, but they were wrong. Let me show you how to customize Logger's output…

Unit Testers Get More Chicks

In this article, I show a complete example of test driven development from start to finish. Make sure you have a little free time when you tackle this one, it's pretty long…

Pathname and Enumerator

Let's have a quick look at two of my favorite standard libraries…