The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "Ruby" ...
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Taming monster datasets: The data specialist’s perspective
Doig gives tips on how to get huge data sets onto your computer and what tools to use on them.
Tags: SQL, SAS; .FTP; Ruby; large data sets
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Free Software: From Spreadsheets to GIS
DeBarros & Fenton provide examples of free software for everything from text editing to office productivity to audio/video/photo editing to database managers & web frameworks.
Tags: free software; spreadsheets; Linux; text editing; Notepad++; Vim; Emacs; jEdit; Open Office; Audacity; Gimp; F-Spot; Open Movie Editor; SQLite; MySQL; PostgreSQL; SQL Server Express; Django; Pylons; Ruby on Rails; Wordpress; Drupal
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Best Practices in Software Engineering
Boyer discusses "best practices" when developing software that will be both sustainable and useful over the long-term. Topics addressed - as well as tools to help tackle them - include: version control, task tracking, defect tracking, staging environments, load testing, push-button deployment, web frameworks and agility, and testing.
Tags: programming; ruby; django; program development; Git; Mercurial; Unfuddle; GitHub; pgpool; Fabric; Capistrano; web frameworks; Ruby on Rails
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Programming: Learn the basic lingo and gain new powers
DeBarros talks about basic programming skills that will unleash a wealth of potential for reporters. He defines a number of programming languages and explains the application of each.
Tags: programming; computer language; C#; JavaScript; Perl; PHP; Python; Ruby; SQL
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Web Scraping
Heath details web scraping. "'Scraping' means extracting data from websites. Thing about any site that lets you search a data set. How much better would it be if you could get the whole thing?" Heath explores the benefits and reasons for scraping, and what tools you'll need to accomplish the task.
Tags: web scraping; data set; database; excel; scripting; Perl; PHP; Ruby; VB; C#; Open Kapow; Yahoo Pipes
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Using Instiki
Willis discusses Instiki, which is software written in Ruby and can run on any platform. He explains installation and setup, features of Instiki, and how to maintain it.