This Week in Ruby (April 7, 2008)
The Ruby community is a tremendously active one. In only seven days, there have been so many noteworthy items popping up, that it would take me hours... more »
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Code is data, and it always has been
I’m just back from the first Scotland on Rails conference, and a jolly fine conference it was too. Much kudos is due to Alan, Graeme, Abdel and Paul.... more »
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This week in Rubinius (April 6th, 2008)
I am on the road these days so this weekly post is gonna be short. C part of Rubinius VM is being rewritten in C++ currently and tomorrow on Monday... more »
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This Week in Ruby (March 31, 2008)
News from the Ruby and Rails community in the past week.
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Ruby: real-world performance metrics
As people spend more time with Ruby 1.9, JRuby, and Rubinius, we are seeing a lot more benchmarks. It has been a while since we published any metrics,... more »
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Using Hpricot in your Merb Specs
Using Hpricot to write simple, effective tests in Merb is already built in, sort of. Here's a quick and dirty way to enable it and reap the rewards of... more »
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Ruby: inject
I love inject. To be more specific, I love Enumerable#inject. I find it easy to read and easy to use. It's powerful and it lets me be more concise.... more »
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Ruby Performance tuning recipe
Dan Berger posted a comment about the compiler flags we'd used for Ruby. Basically, we've not done compiler flag tuning yet, so I'll write a quick... more »
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Ruby performance gains on SPARC
The programming language Ruby is run on a VM. So the VM is responsible for context switches as well as garbage collection. Consequently, the code... more »
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Shotgun: The Rubinius Virtual Machine
As I stated in my introductory post, I intend with this blog to delve into some of the implementation details of Rubinius. However, as I’ve... more »
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Adventures in Merb
An article on getting up and running with the web application framework Merb.
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JRuby 1.1RC3 Released
JRuby 1.1RC3 is the third and final release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can... more »
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Warm fuzzy things for random simulations
Let's talk about random experiments. The simplest one is tossing a coin, with outcomes "heads" and "tails". It's so elementary that we fully... more »
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rbridge-0.1.2-released
RBridge allows the use of Erlang code within a Ruby program. Optionally allowing asynchronous access and ruby-like syntax or by using Erlang code... more »
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NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta
NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta was released, a day or two ago. I'm surprised at the number of features that made it in. More than any other, I'm happy with... more »
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Ebb, even faster than Thin
Ebb aims to be a small and fast web server specifically for hosting web frameworks like Rails, Merb, and in the future Django.
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Functional Data Structures Out Of Nowhere
I’ve been watching the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs videos recently while riding the Caltrain and enjoyed it quite a bit. For... more »
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Microsoft's Jason Zander on Visual Studio and dynamic languages
The mindsets of the dynamic language programmer and the classical, static language developer are practically different beasts. So can they share the... more »
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Rails Migration Concordance
If you are a solo developer, Rails' migrations are the neatest thing since sliced bread. If you work on a team, you know that often it can be a real... more »
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Nobody Knows Shoes Freely Available
Prolific Ruby hacker and blogger, Why the Lucky Stiff, has made freely available in different formats his latest artwork, book, api, and documentation... more »
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Racket - Ruby Raw Packet Fun
This is one of those projects that I've been sitting on for a good 6+ months. Only over the last 2-3 have things really started to come together. I am... more »
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git'ing started with RSpec
David Chelimsky announced last night that the git experiment has begun. For those of you who aren't familiar with git, you should check out Linus... more »
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JRuby in Google Summer of Code 2008
Google's Summer of Code for 2008 is starting up again, and we're looking for folks to submit proposals. The JRuby Community or Sun or me or someone... more »
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Headius and Ruby Threading: Software Reinvention isn’t Sexy, It’s Stupid
Check out this article by Headius. He’s discovered that Ruby adopted some of the same broken threading structures that early Java did. And, lo! and... more »
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Thin The Fast Ruby Web Server
Today Mongrel is the defacto Ruby webserver of choice (watch Zed Shaw's, creator of Mongrel, presentation from QCon London 2007) . But a new... more »
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