Ruby Whois 3.0

March 20th, 2013 at 5:45 pm • permalink2 comments

Whois is an intelligent — pure Ruby — WHOIS client and parser. It provides a flexible and programmable API to query WHOIS servers and look up IP, TLD, and domain WHOIS information. This library was developed to power RoboWhois, RoboDomain and, more recently, DNSimple.

Let’s keep this announcement short and simple: Ruby Whois 3.0 has been released today!

Developers tend to assign fancy names to major releases, so I will. For the purpose of this article, I’ll call this release Whois 3. (continue →)


Understanding the WHOIS protocol

March 27th, 2012 at 12:13 pm • permalink2 comments

An overview of the WHOIS protocol, the de-facto “standard” for querying domain name information.

Heroku and Rails 3.2 asset:precompile error

February 5th, 2012 at 10:34 pm • permalink18 comments

How to configure your Rails 3.2 application to successfully deploy it to Heroku.

Eloquent Ruby Book Review

October 3rd, 2011 at 11:49 am • permalink1 comment

Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen is a book about the Ruby programming language that focuses on Ruby programming style by teaching you how to write your code as a real Rubyist.

Using Sprockets without a Rails/Rack project

September 22nd, 2011 at 5:28 pm • permalink10 comments

An example of using Sprockets to preprocess and bundle CSS and JavaScript files without a Rails application.

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