From One End to the Other in Ruby

A while back I tackled the following programming challenge: From One End to the Other: Find the smallest possible (positive) integer that ends in a six such that if that six is removed and placed in front of the remaining digits of the number, the resulting number will be four times as large as the original. ...

March 6, 2016

LED Clock in Ruby

A few weeks ago I built a program to display an LED clock. Here’s the problem, and my solution. ...

March 6, 2016

Ceramic Nation

Project announcement! Last night I built a Markov Chain-generated novel, titled Ceramic Nation. ...

September 11, 2015

Ruby Symbol#to_proc

What does &: mean in Ruby? In this post, I’ll explain. ...

October 31, 2014

Code Club: Rack and Rails Server

This week in Code Club we explored Rack, the middleware of the Rails stack. Rack is newsworthy of late due to a change in ownership, prompting inevitable questions about the future. As Rails developers, we wanted to know what Rack really does. ...

August 27, 2014