Monthly Archives: October 2010

Ruby v1.9.2 On Windows: can’t find executable rake for rake-0.8.7

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Derick Bailey

FYI – I saw this question over on StackOverflow and did a little bit of searching for the problem and workarounds. In searching for an answer, I found issue #3677 on the ruby-lang redmine site. It turns out there’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Rake, Ruby | 3 Comments

Parsing A Hash Tree (Or Object Graph) Using The Maybe Monad In Ruby

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I was playing around with the maybe monad that I wrote in my last post, and it occurred to me that I might be able to parse out a object graph and grab a value from that graph with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Monads, Ruby | 4 Comments

The Maybe Monad In Ruby

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Just for fun, I decided to see what a monad would look like in ruby. I chose to use the Maybe monad since that’s what I used in my previous post on monads in C#. Here’s what I came up … Continue reading →

Posted in Monads, Principles and Patterns, Ruby | 3 Comments

A Less Ugly Switch Statement For C#

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I know switch statements are considered “evil” because they are very procedural code, they violate the Open-Closed Principle, etc etc. But every now and then I don’t see a need to do anything more than a switch statement because the … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Refactoring | 27 Comments

Technical Debt Is Like Your Friend, The Mafia Bookie

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Derick Bailey

You’ve known the guy for years… he’s your friend and you’ve never had any troubles in spite of his job. Then one day, you’re hard up for some money to pay rent or get a car repair done. Fortunately your … Continue reading →

Posted in Brownfield, Technical Debt | 4 Comments