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Gregory Brown is a New Haven, CT based Rubyist who spends most of his time on free software projects in Ruby. His main projects are Prawn and Ruport, and he is also the author of the upcoming book Ruby Best Practices. He also is in possession of a small bamboo plant that seems to be invincible, and he is quite proud of this accomplishment.

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Ruby Best Practices
by Gregory Brown
June 2009
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

Ruby Best Practices: Rough Cuts Version
by Gregory Brown
November 2008
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Ruport: Business Reporting for Ruby
Publish Date: Apr. 8, 2008No one likes developing reporting tools for an application. But without them, many applications are only half-done. Luckily, Ruby has a great reporting infrastructure available to build on, and in this article, you'll learn how to use it. Shoes Meets Merb: Driving a GUI App through Web Services in Ruby
Publish Date: Jan. 8, 2008It seems like you can't say the word Ruby these days without the word Rails following automatically. But before Rails ever saw the light of day, Ruby was a thriving, robust language. So what can you do without Rails? How about connect a GUI application to a back end web service, using two powerful Ruby frameworks? Behavior Driven Development Using Ruby (Part 3)
Publish Date: Sep. 20, 2007Gregory Brown has been testing the heck out of his dots and lines game! In the last portion of his dive into behavior driven development, he looks at custom matchers and introduces us to RCov, a coverage visualizer. Behavior-Driven Development Using Ruby (Part 2)
Publish Date: Aug. 30, 2007Gregory Brown has introduced us to the basic idea of behavior-driven development in his last article. Now, he takes it from abstract to concrete by showing us how to build behavior-driven development into an actual Ruby application. How to Build Simple Console Apps with Ruby and ActiveRecord
Publish Date: Jun. 21, 2007When we talk about databases and Ruby, we're almost always talking about ActiveRecord and Rails. But it is quite possible to use ActiveRecord without the Rails scaffolding at all. Gregory Brown shows you how. Rails Testing: Not Just for the Paranoid
Publish Date: Jun. 7, 2007One of the major features of Ruby on Rails is that it provides automatic scaffolding to set up tests. Rails guru Gregory Brown shows us how you can leverage these capabilities to create unit and functional tests for your applications. Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of Rails (Part 2)
Publish Date: May. 10, 2007In the second part of Gregory Brown's in-depth examination of the Rails ActiveRecord Persistence layer, he looks at how to model relationships such as one to many and many to many. This comprehensive introduction to ActiveRecord will let you hit the ground running when you need to integrate a database into Rails. Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of Rails (Part 1)
Publish Date: Apr. 19, 2007ActiveRecord is one of the key elements that makes up Ruby on Rails. It is the crucial link between Rails and the underlying databases that fuel it. Gregory Brown, lead developer of Ruby Reports, begins a two-part exploration of what makes ActiveRecord tick.

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Gregory's blog posts are hosted at:
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Learning From Bad Ideas

November 22 2009

When we know something is ugly or “evil”, we’re quick to replace it with what we know to be a better solution. But if we don’t know why the solution is better, it makes it hard for us to investigate those things that look reasonable on the surface, yet have… read more

Be Nice and Have Fun

August 21 2009

Yet again, we’re experiencing a firestorm that will shake things up and change the Ruby community in a big way. But like anything else, the best thing we can do is remember that the sky is not falling, and that all internet drama is ephemeral at best. Sure, we’ll all dearly… read more

Should I Tap that Hash? (Ruby 1.9 Style)

August 05 2009

Though the Ruby Best Practices book covers Ruby 1.9, it is decidedly not a “Ruby 1.9 Best Practices” book. The reason for this, of course, is that common idioms for Ruby 1.9 haven’t evolved yet. Let’s work together to change that. Every week until Ruby 1.9.2 comes out, I’ll be coming… read more

25th Post!

July 07 2009

This is the 25th post to RBP blog! Hooray! We’ve been really happy with how things have gone so far. Conversations have been for the most part civil and lively, we haven’t run out of content, and the blog has seen new content nearly every week. I know that we aren’t seeing… read more

Code Blocks: Ruby's Swiss Army Knife

July 07 2009

The following blog post is a direct excerpt from the Ruby Best Practices book. If you’ve been enjoying this blog, you’d probably love the book, so I’ve decided to release some content here to give you a sense of what to expect. Enjoy! In Ruby, code blocks are everywhere. If you’ve… read more

The Decorator Delegator Disco

June 27 2009

As promised, we’re back with more design discussion and hopefully some interesting ideas. Let’s start with a quick recap of what has happened so far. First, Sandi Metz posted on her blog about type specific coupling that a case statement can introduce. Her proposed solution encouraged us to pass the responsibilities… read more

Quack Attack: Making Your Code More Rubyish

June 09 2009

I’ve been doing some FFI work recently, which means that I’ve needed to wrap underlying C libraries so that I can call them from Ruby. While I won’t get into how the low level wrappers work, I can show you what the raw API calls look like for just a… read more

RubySpec as a Community Resource (Interview w. Brian Ford)

June 04 2009

Though I still need to collect the details, I’m about to start on another major open source project, called Unity . It will be a community driven effort to provide a nice web resource that builds on top of the RubySpec project with reporting and search capabilities. But readers might wonder… read more

Reading Ruby's Standard Library for Fun and Profit

May 24 2009

Note: This post is inspired by JEG2’s excellent code reading talk at MWRC 2009, called LittleBIGRuby Go watch it if you have time, then come back and read this. We all need to hunt bugs and we all need to integrate our code with other systems. Some of us need to… read more

About.com Fail

May 15 2009

Content theft and other shady deals for those who only care about advertisement click-through rate. read more

Hello World (Literally)

May 05 2009

If Google Analytics is right, we’ve reached 68 countries in the last three days. Although I guess this doesn’t mean much at all on the internet, I think it still makes for a pretty graph: From RBP Of course, I’d like to back up these statistics with some direct data, so I’ve… read more

Stand and Be Counted

May 01 2009

My short response to the call to "Stand and Be Counted" on the issues of gender, community openness, and other rough spots that are hitting the Ruby and Rails communities hard right now. read more

Fun with Class.new

April 30 2009

If you’ve worked with Ruby for at least a little while, you might already know that classes in Ruby are objects themselves, in particular, instances of Class. Before I get into the fun stuff, let’s quickly recap what that means. Here’s the ordinary way we define classes, as you all have… read more

Rails Modularity for Lazy Bastards

April 16 2009

When we develop standalone systems or work on libraries and frameworks, modularity seems to come naturally. When something seems to gain a life of its own, we pull it off into its own package or subsystem to keep things clean. This is a natural extension of the sorts of design… read more

Solve the problem, not just a problem

April 13 2009

Geeks are prone to build complex tools to solve problems, but the real goal is to solve the right problems. The Korma blogging tool hits that sweet spot. read more

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