David Lyons

David is an Instructional Technologist happily hacking away in higher ed. When not behind a keyboard he can be found behind a controller, handlebars, or in the mountains.

David's articles

All Rubyists Love Logging

Ruby

By David Lyons, August 28, 2014

Learn the basics of the Logger class in the Ruby Standard Library. All apps, not just Rails apps, should use logging to communicate status and errors.

Command Line Apps with OptionParse

Ruby

By David Lyons, May 15, 2014

A brief tutorial on creating command line applications with Ruby and the OptionParse gem by creating a working script that exercises various CLI scenarios.

Jekyll Plugins on GitHub

Ruby

By David Lyons, March 19, 2014

Read Jekyll Plugins on GitHub and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.