Rubinius By The Book
Rubinius, which you've no doubt heard lots about over the last few years, is an implementation of the Ruby language written from scratch using cutting... more »
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Ruby at ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks started using Ruby for production projects in 2006, from then till the end of 2008 we had done 41 ruby projects. In preparation for a... more »
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Mike Gunderloy's "Rails Rescue Handbook" - Very Handy
The Rails Rescue Handbook is a new, 83 page PDF e-book by Mike Gunderloy that goes in-depth on how to "rescue" a Rails project that might have, well,... more »
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A dozen (or so) ways to start sub-processes in Ruby: Part 1
It is often useful in Ruby to start a sub-process to run a particular chunk of Ruby code. Perhaps you are trying to run two processes in parallel, and... more »
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The ultimate rails sortable, searchable, paginated table plugin
A re-release of an old plugin (sortable) that allows you to create a sortable, paginated, searchable table in a rails app with one line of code.... more »
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MacRuby Drops GIL, Gains Concurrent Threads
Threading in Ruby has always been a troublesome issue. Ruby 1.8 implements userspace threads with performance problems and also don't make use of... more »
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rubyrep - database replication that doesn't hurt.
A new database replication tool. Master - master replication for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Ridiculously easy to set up.
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RubyTu.be - A community driven Ruby video and screencast site
RubyTu.be is a community driven site for aggregating Ruby related video and screencasts. It provides a tagged and searchable index, comments through... more »
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How to Scale Your Ruby Applications
Engine Yard's Ezra Zygmuntowicz offers five tips on how to scale Ruby applications, including caching techniques to keep the load off application... more »
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Write Better CSS with Less
I have a confession: I think parts of CSS suck. It’s repetitive, tedious, and … well, kind of dumb.
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6 Steps To Refactoring Rails
Since December, Rails has undergone a fairly significant internal refactoring in a number of areas. Here's the a process for diving into a new area of... more »
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Ruby 1.9.2 Plans Announced
The final 1.9.2 release is planned for the end of 2009 (25th December), the first preview will be out by July 17th, in time for the japanese Ruby... more »
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20+ Rubyists are using Sinatra – Do you?
With Sinatra you can quickly create your own tiny web-applications in Ruby and write lots of small services. RubyLearning caught up with some Rubyists... more »
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How to run your Java class's main method from JRuby
Here's how you run a Java class's main method from JRuby.
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NetBeans 6.7 Released!
The only IDE you need! Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Relieving the Pain of Controller Tests
Lately we’ve been embracing Cucumber as the preferred way of testing our Ruby on Rails applications. Cucumber is awesome, both for communicating with... more »
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Ruby shines in North American developer survey
Ruby use is up 40 per cent amongst North American software developers since 2008, according to a new study from Evans Data. Despite the jump in... more »
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Fooled By Testing
A look at problem of overconfidence when testing code.
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Dynamic Languages Powered by GlassFish v3 Application Server
Vivek Pandey, GlassFish technical lead for scripting languages support, and Jacob Kessler, GlassFish scripting engineer and self-described code... more »
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appscale - Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Fabric for Google AppEngine Applications
AppScale is an open-source implementation of the Google AppEngine (GAE) cloud computing interface from the RACELab at UC Santa Barbara. AppScale... more »
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Getting Started With Restful Authentication in Rails
In this article, we will use restful_authentication to add a user system to a simple Rails application. This is great for those first starting out and... more »
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New version of Ruby IDE based on IntelliJ IDEA is out - RubyMine 1.1
RubyMine is an IDE from JetBrains, creators of fantastic IntelliJ IDEA, one of the best IDE's for Java development. RubyMine has all the tools... more »
A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax
Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that promotes rapid development. Clients’ demands are ever increasing yet they still expect the same... more »
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Ramaze and Etanni Templating (String Interpolation Version)
This post uses Ruby's string interpolation in the Etanni templating system in Ramaze.
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How to get a free license of IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial product, but many people don’t know that there are quite easy ways how to get a free license. Read this blog entry to... more »
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