Over on the Ruby Best Practices blog, 
Robert Klemme walks through the process of building a new numeric class from scratch in Ruby – taking into account all the gotchas and considerations that pop up along the way. Robert’s task is harder and more involved than you’d initially suspect.!
Robert chooses to build a HexNum class that can represent integers that are then displayed as hex numbers. There are considerations to be made with handling conversions from existing numeric types and his new HexNum class, conversions to other types, supporting standard comparison methods, and overloading.
All of the above concerns are covered in the post with all the quality and detail you should expect from the RBP blog by now. Read More
Sick of Rails 3.0 yet or still enjoying your 
Whenever something’s a really “big deal” in the Ruby world, we cover it – even if it makes more sense on 
Today, Rails core member Jeremy Kemper dropped the words that lots of ardent Rails developers have been waiting for: “Rails 3 beta is LIVE.” It’s true! Rails 3.0′s first approved beta/pre-release version is 
Ruby’s creator and benevolent dictator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto has 
If you try to keep up with the Ruby community you’re probably familiar with the 
If you fancy a trip to the land of fried confectionary and heart disease, the Scottish Ruby Conference (previously Scotland on Rails) is selling tickets for its third event: 
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