Articles in The Standard Library

Encoding Conversion With iconv

This article covers the Ruby 1.8 system of converting between character encodings…

The $KCODE Variable and jcode Library

Details on how to globally change the encoding for Ruby 1.8 as well as coverage for a simple character encoding helper library…

The Secret Shell Helper

Some coverage of an undocumented standard library…

All About Struct

Ruby even has shortcuts for building data classes for you…

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…