Ruby in Steel 1.5 Leaves 'Iron' Age Behind
The newest version of Ruby in Steel, a Microsoft Visual Studio-based IDE for Ruby on Rails, is now available from SapphireSteel Software. The new 1.5... more »
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jQuery with Rails 3
One of the most talked about features in Rails 3 is its plug & play architecture with various frameworks like Datamapper in place of ActiveRecord for... more »
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Why Riak should power your next Rails app
Last fall, I heard about Riak and thought it sounded awesome, and it boasts a lot of neat features that I’ll go into detail about below. I was further... more »
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Ruby blocks and closures
Check out how elegant blocks and closures and their first-class support in ruby can make our codes.
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rails3info.com launched !
Visit rails3info.com and find out all you need to know about the new Ruby on Rails 3! Tutorials, presentations and articles in one convenient place.
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Writing your own DSL with Ruby
Ruby techniques that will help you create your own domain specific language (DSL).
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Open Source Project Management Software Review
We’ve put together this review of open source project management apps based on our ten years of experience designing and building web sites and... more »
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Rails 3.0 Beta Release
Rails 3.0 is ponies and rainbows! It’s going to cook you dinner and fold your laundry. You’re going to wonder how life was ever possible before you it... more »
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Running a Ruby application with jruby-complete
One of the great things about the JRuby project is that it’s easy to run Ruby programs without installing Ruby. In fact, you don’t even need to... more »
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Screencast: How To Upgrade Your Rails 2 App to Rails 3 in 25 Minutes
In the video, Geoffrey takes his personal news site from Rails 2 to 3 and demonstrates the upgrade process live. With the first official beta/release... more »
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What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
My perspective on Ruby was rocked last weekend at Northwest Python Day in Seattle. Compared to other programming languages, Python and Ruby are so... more »
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Ruby Gets An Official Spec: Heading To Become An ISO International Standard
It's long been a bone of contention in the Ruby world that Ruby, as a programming language, doesn't have an official spec (though RubySpec has been a... more »
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Daily Dose - Goojje: Google's Chinese Sister
There's a new Chinese search engine with a familiar design and a similar name to Google, although it's more filtered. SAP's new 12Sprints tool is... more »
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Ruby Digest - A simple Aggregator for passionate rubyists
RubyDigest is a simple Aggregator for rubyists who don't want to miss anything. I have tried to include all major blogs, podcasts and screencasts in... more »
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Flex on Rails with RubyAMF
Using RubyAMF to build AMF services in Rails and how to use these services in Flex.
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Ruby Creator Yukihiro "Matz" about Ruby, Functional Programming and Programming Languages Design
In this interview, Yukihiro Matsumoto talks about programming languages design and decisions he had to take while designing Ruby. He also discusses... more »
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If He Walks Like A Ruby Developer, But He Talks Like A PHP Developer, Then What Exactly Is He?
After I made my opinionated post last week on the pointlessness of debating what the “best” is in regards to programming languages, frameworks, etc.,... more »
Navvy, a database agnostic background job processor
Introducing Navvy; a simple background job processor inspired by delayed_job, but aiming for database agnosticism.
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Ruby Singleton Pattern
Singleton is perhaps the most hated of all programming patterns. You can read some of the reasons for this in Why Singletons are Evil post pointed out... more »
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Why Do 'Cool Kids' Choose Ruby or PHP to Build Websites Instead of Java?
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of... more »
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9 New Ruby Libraries To Check Out
I love checking out new Ruby libraries, and recently many new ones have passed my eyes. The most prominent releases get their own post on Ruby Inside,... more »
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Thinking Functionally In Ruby – A Great Presentation by Tom Stuart
Thinking Functionally in Ruby is a talk that British Ruby developer Tom Stuart gave at a recent London Ruby Users Group meeting. In it he covers what... more »
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Ruby, Rails & 5 Ways to Improve Performance
When I was speaking last night at the BIMA & Ultraspeed Virtualisation event on virtualisation and web application development, I was surprised to... more »
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Ruby VM Shootout, Part 2 (MacRuby vs LuaJIT)
This is an update to the original Ruby VM Shootout (http://bit.ly/7EJDTN) where a few different Ruby VM's are compared for performance using a simple... more »
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