Automating the Development Environment
Gianni Chiappetta 
via runlevel6.org
A simple guide that teaches you how to automate your development environment to a 1-click affair using the latest Mac OS X technologies.
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JRuby Won & It Was Fun
One interesting session at JavaOne 2008 was hosted by Raghavan aka Rags from Sun Microsystems. The session was called the Script Bowl and was a war... more »
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HtmlUnit in .NET and HtmlUnit in JRuby with Celerity as fast compatible alternative to Watir
Java and Groovy are my main programming languages (as well as JavaScript for scripts in HTML pages) therefore it’s always funny for me to see that... more »
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Script Thy Java App
Let’s imagine a very simple scenario. You are writing an application which would benefit from some user specific customization after deployment. Maybe... more »
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JavaOne 2008, Day Three: Riding the Rails
This post outlines the development and deployment process for JRuby on Rails based on notes from talks by Ola Bini of Thoughtworks, Nick Sieger of... more »
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Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby
Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any... more »
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javaone 2008 summary/reflection
JavaOne 2008 is over. I’m still processing everything I’ve seen, but so far I didn’t see to much I didn’t know about before; certainly nothing... more »
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Multiple File Upload with Ruby on Rails and file_column
I just found a multiple file upload script here, and a rewrite for the use with the nice file_column plugin. There was a conflict with the mootools... more »
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The NetBeans Ruby IDE: You Thought Rails Development Was Fun Before
One of the powerful features added to the NetBeans IDE 6 was support for Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails. The Ruby programming language has become... more »
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CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications
CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll... more »
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JRuby Roundup: 1.1.1 with Profiler, Startup Performance Boost, GSoC '08
The JRuby 1.1.1 release provides mostly bug fixes for JRuby 1.1, like a fix for a bug causing problems with IBM JDKs. See the release notes for a... more »
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Under the hood: Ruby’s global variables
Ruby’s global variables - I have long been aware of their existence in the background, but I hadn’t realised quite how many are initialized by... more »
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ColdFusion for JSP Developers
Forget Ruby on Rails; in this article I outline why, as a Java developer, you should perhaps be looking to another technology closer to home to... more »
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Re: RSS Feeds for Subversion
creating a quick RSS feeds server for your subversion repository in JRuby.
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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine
Despite all the clicking that has been done on a certain star.gif, I really don’t think Ruby is coming to Google’s App Engine. Google doesn’t have... more »
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Popularizing Django — Or Reusable apps considered harmful.
Let’s see what a Killer app gives you. 1. It fills a big niche, so people are forced to learn your language/framework. 2. It forces the... more »
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Compile Ruby to Python bytecode
Compile Ruby to Python bytecode. And, in addition, translate that bytecode back to Python source code using Decompyle (included.) Requires Ruby 1.9... more »
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Rails gets more mature
Rails 2.1 is right around the corner. I’ve been following the new features in Edge Rails and eagerly looking forward to this release. Rails 2.1... more »
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Rails Development for iPhone with rails_iui
I was using the iUI toolkit, which contains a number of CSS styles and JavaScript event handlers to make iPhone Web apps look and feel somewhat like... more »
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NetBeans 6.1 JRuby trick: Enable JRuby Console
One minor issue with NetBeans 6.1 is that it ships by default with very basic IRB console for Ruby: no history, no pop-ups for code completion. Since... more »
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Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up - step 6
Sixth in my series on writing a compiler in Ruby: "How about some deferred evaluation and anonymous functions? Lambdas, or anonymous functions, can... more »
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This Week in Ruby (May 5, 2008)
Net::SSH 2.0, MagLev, Rails 2.1 and more...
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Distributed programming with Jabber and EventMachine
Jabber and its underlying protocol XMPP are typically associated with instant messaging applications, although the breadth and flexibility of the... more »
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Groovy Faster than Ruby? Apparently.
I kind of brushed over Alex's speed improvements in the recent Groovy 1.6-beta1 release, but based on some recent benchmarks it looks like it needs... more »
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