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Sane Ruby console on Windows or how to patch IRB to behave like *nix.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: November 9, 2009
This is a post for those poor souls who are like me stuck for whatever reasons developing in Ruby on a Windows system. I don’t know about other people, but I spend a big chunk of my development time in console, particularly in irb or rails console: trying things out & debugging. Do you want [...]
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How to read & write to a dbf database file from ruby.

By Nick Gorbikoff | Published: February 3, 2009
A little history. The company I work for has an old system that was written in house for a period of almost 20 years and it’s done in dBase. Once cool and allmighty, it’s not longer, dare we say, a system that is at the forefront of computer technology. It has a numerous problems, i.e. [...]
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