Tag Archives: Ruby

Enterprise iOS Distribution

With an Apple Enterprise Account, iOS applications may be distributed without the tedious UDID provisioning required for iOS apps that are destined for the App Store.  This lack of provisioning makes over-the-air distribution practical with the very simple user experience of clicking a link on a web page to trigger a download and install of [...]

Building Small Web Services with a Heroku and Unicorn Sinatra Template Project

Using Sinatra Unicorn and Heroku (CEDAR stack) Together! I have been asked “How do I get started with Unicorn and Heroku?” “How can I made a remote HTTP webhook?” “How can I make a simple web service?” , “How can I get started with a free ruby hosting evironment?” I want to take a moment [...]

What classes are Enumerable in Ruby?

Enumerable is a powerful mixin that provides some really slick operations on collections. I started looking at it since I think it is important to teach map and inject, but ended up teaching about most of its methods, since they are so cool. I found a great series of exercises and added to it to [...]

How to include a block in a soap4r request

Here at Blazing Cloud we recently had to write some Ruby code to integrate with an external service via. SOAP. I cringed a little at the thought of working with SOAP, but I was pleased to find that the soap4r gem is fairly easy to use and works pretty well. Getting Started with SOAP4R is [...]

How to include a block in a soap4r request

Here at Blazing Cloud we recently had to write some Ruby code to integrate with an external service via. SOAP. I cringed a little at the thought of working with SOAP, but I was pleased to find that the soap4r gem is fairly easy to use and works pretty well. Getting Started with SOAP4R is [...]