Gregory Brown

Rubyist

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Biography

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.

Books

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
OUT OF PRINT

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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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