This year marks my 10:th year programming Ruby professionally. As the local Ruby community seems to have disappeared into the abyss, I\'m writing this to remind myself why Ruby is great.

Celebrating 10 years with Ruby

Using Capistrano to deploy is sometimes overkill. This is a minimal way to deploy any web app using git and rake.

Minimal Rake Deploy Task

How to distribute a Ruby or Rails application in an .exe file

Distribute your Rails App with a One-Click .exe

Ruby on Rails is a really nice tool for use when building web APIs

Your own API based on Ruby on Rails

The main difference between "load" vs "require" in the Ruby programming language.

load vs require in Ruby

The easiest and most efficient way to fight spam with Ruby on Rails.

Super Simpler SPAM Protection in Ruby on Rails

Note to self about variables in regular expressions when using Ruby