Hi, I am Jan. This is my old Ruby blog. I still post about Ruby, but I now do it on idiosyncratic-ruby.com. You should also install Irbtools to improve your IRB.

irbtools / Release the power of irb!

October 2010, ruby · gem · plugin · irb · working-environment

Equipped with some tools discussed at the germany.rb 2010 user group meetup, I’ve played around with my ~/.irbrc and put together a little meta gem for some useful irb tools (github)

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Gem: clipboard

October 2010, ruby · gem

The clipboard gem allows you to access the clipboard on Liunx, MacOS and Windows.

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Requirements: A Mini RubyGems plugin

October 2010, ruby · gem · plugin · hints · one-liners

The .gemspec file of a gem allows to specify requirements for that gem – but usually you do not get to see them. These five lines patch RubyGems, so that gem displays the requirements of a gem after it has been installed:

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