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Groovy Fun With ObjectRange
I ran into a situation the other day with Groovy that baffled me at first. Let's create a range from 0.0 to 10.0 and then use it to check if a certain... more »
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JRuby-on-Rails and MySQL on GlassFish on OpenSolaris in Virtual Box VM
My primary development machine is Mac OS Leopard on Intel Core 2 Duo (read osxtips). But the beauty of virtualization is that I can run multiple... more »
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Flexible Rails Refcard Available - Download Now
Peter Armstrong, author of Flexible Rails and Enterprise Flexible Rails, has put together an overview of Flex and Rails. Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on... more »
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New RubyStack includes git and nginx, easiest way to get started with Rails
RubyStack is an easy to use installer for Apache, MySQL, Ruby and of course Rails and many popular gems like rmagick. This release includes git and... more »
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Rails-Doc.org - A First Look
A quick tour of Rails-Doc.org, the new project which aims to improve Rails documentation in a Web 2.0 way. The article also includes an interview with... more »
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Splunk your distributed logs in EC2
Index and search distributed (or local) logs with ease - a look at Splunk with a simple Ruby-based TCP logger.
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Full Git Clone of Matz Ruby Subversion Repository
I’ve been wanting to have a full git clone of Matz Ruby Subversion repository for a while. In fact, I’ve been using a private git clone for a few... more »
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Glimmer - Using Ruby to Build SWT User Interfaces
Glimmer is a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library. Glimmer... more »
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Spawn: reliable background processing for rails
Rails, being single threaded, has always been plagued with the problem of long running tasks locking up your server until they're done. Need to notify... more »
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Upload progress bar with apache and mod_passenger
Mod_passenger is great module that makes rails/rack/wsgi applications deployment very easy. No more proxy, load balancers etc... I've written apache... more »
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Rails - Simple Asynchronous Processing
A rails plugin that makes it easy to run background tasks using http, mongrel and Rails.
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10 must-have Rails plugins
I was talking to Tim the other day about auditing Rails projects, and how we see a lot of Rails projects that reinvent the wheel instead of using... more »
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The Real Source of Defects in the Software
Defects are one of the most important metrics for measuring software quality and special attention is always given to know how many defects of the... more »
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Setting up a Rails 2.0 Project without a Database
I needed to create a Rails application that wasn't going to use a database backend. In my case I was going to be using REST services to access the... more »
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The Even Bigger News About Maglev
Maglev is a new Gemstone Smalltalk based VM for Ruby project. Ruby + Smalltalk + Gemstone is your secret nuclear development weapon.
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Syntactic Sugar in Groovy and Ruby
Both Groovy and Ruby have their strengths and it’s nice to see cross-pollination of good ideas going both ways. From the comments on the RailsEnvy... more »
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Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2
Following my successful and widely acclaimed Rails 2.0 tutorial, this is Part 2 of my "Rolling with Rails 2.1" tutorial to cover the main Rails 2.1... more »
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Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1
Following my successful and widely acclaimed Rails 2.0 tutorial, I just released the "Rolling with Rails 2.1" tutorial to cover the main Rails 2.1... more »
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Ruby on Rails - a paper dragon?
When Ruby on Rails started to gain some momentum a year or so ago, I decided to take another look at the Ruby language itself along with the Rails web... more »
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RBridge 0.2
RBridge has hit v0.2 and is vastly, vastly more stable and frankly, much more happy. Several extremely important bugfixes put it very close to being... more »
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Ruby gem converting diffs to pretty HTML
An announcement of a new gem employed at Codenotifier.
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Ruby: An EventMachine Tutorial
Ruby / EventMachine is an event-driven networking library for Ruby, similar to Twisted for Python. Certain aspects of it are also similar to... more »
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The future is PHP
How did PHP manage to out-compete old dynamic languages such as Perl, Python and Ruby? A very interesting article that traces the environmental and... more »
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Ruby is a Playground, PHP is a Factory
Ruby, to me, is like a big open playground, while languages like PHP remind me of big industrial factories. I don't think that any of us would argue... more »
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Announcing the Ruboss Framework
Dima and I have been working hard on the Ruboss Framework: a framework that aims to take Flex and Rails development to the next level by making the... more »
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