For the whole of May, I will blog about weird things in Ruby over at Idiosyncratic Ruby – Don’t miss it!

And you’ll never want to miss them again!

This is my first jruby code (written for the clipboard gem) and I was quite surprised that you only need one-liners ;)

Rails migrations are easy to understand and easy to write. However, you can save some unnecessary key strokes by applying these three tips :)

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:

The next pack of Project Euler solutions.

Not everyone likes debuggers. I rather print the debug values myself – it works and I do not need to learn a debugger :P

More solutions for the projecteuler.net problems. Some of them are solved using 1.9.2 features.

The 28 Bytes of Ruby Joy will notably clean up your code:

It is not that easy to find an replacement for google – often the search results are just better then those of the competitors. Except Yahoo – I like their results, but the user interface is not as good as google’s.

But now I have found a solution that works for me: ecosia.org.

After editing some source files with different editors on different platforms, I had some troubles with automatically inserted tabs messing it all up.

This little script replaces all tabs with two spaces.