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Tag: Ruby
Karotz + Ruby = Love
I made myself a little present this christmas by putting a Karotz under my christmas tree. This little digital bunny robot is the 3rd generation of a gadget that was once known as Nabaztag. Karotz can connect to the internet and you can deploy applications on it. It’s a tiny multitalent, speaks, blinks, turns his […]
Ruby Quirks
Once in a while I come accross some Ruby code where I don’t know why it is doing stuff the way it does… Ternary Operator I am using the Ternary Operator quite a lot, because it keeps the code concise and often times more readable then long if-else statements. One thing that I discovered just […]
Improved ASIN documentation
Beeing sick sucks, but on the other hand there is a lot of spare time… So, while sitting on my couch, I created a new resource for documentation of my pet project the asin gem, which you can find on heroku: If you have any additions or questions feel free to fork the project or […]
Heroku Cedar Background Jobs for free!
I’m using Heroku mostly for playing around with latest technology and hosting free apps. Since Heroku changed their pricing model due to the introduction of the new process model some of my apps changed from free to paid, especially those that had some background jobs or nightly crons (I really did not get, why this […]