A Productivity Race: Ruby on Rails vs JPA on OX3
This article tries to demonstrate that Java can be more productive than Ruby. We are going to develop the same application of the article Rolling with... more »
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NetBeans 6.1 : no go for YAML development
Highlighting some issues with the YAML editor that ships with NetBeans 6.1, which make it unusable for any serious YAML development.
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JRuby Support in NetBeans IDE 6: Ask the Experts (May 19-23)
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Got a question about JRuby support in the NetBeans IDE? Beginning on May 19, post it on the Ask the Experts page and get answers from three... more »
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A Rails Developer’s Thoughts On Using Grails
In the this post I discuss my thoughts on using Grails for the first time, and compare it to my experience as a Rails developer.
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Dynamically created methods in Ruby
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There seems to be some confusion with regards to dynamically defining methods in Ruby. I thought I'd take a look at the three available methods for... more »
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Deploying on Phusion Passenger
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A very large number of PHP developers, perhaps even the majority, are building smaller web applications. These applications receive only a moderate... more »
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Rails 2.1 release candidate 1 is on it’s way
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Word out on the wire is that Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagged in the repository, so the gems should be available shortly. Being a point release, the... more »
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Duplicate Code in Your Tests
Sadly, DRY has become a philosophy that is dogmatically and blindly applied to every aspect of programming. I'm a big fan of firing silver bullets but... more »
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RubySpec: Bringing Ruby Test Suites Together
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Hooray! The RubySpec Project, a collection of runnable specifications for Ruby 1.8.6ish behavior, has graduated into its own domain. Finally there's a... more »
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Prototype JavaScript framework: An Interview with Sergio Pereira
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Last week, we launched a Prototype Linkedin group, which, as of this writing, has more than 300 members. This was the occasion to get back in touch... more »
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The Narcissism of Small Code Differences
A pithy commentary on the many wars we start over the "one true way" of solving trivial problems.
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Refactoring Ugly Groovy Code
A few weeks ago I was writing a method in Groovy that needed to return three different results, two strings and one array. As I was writing it, I said... more »
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Managing Rails with FiveRuns Manage 2.0
This is a short video interview with FiveRuns' Steve Sanderson and Bruce Williams about today's release of Manage 2.0, one of their products for... more »
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ASP.NET MVC - Living in a Web Forms World
When developing ASP.NET MVC applications, most examples or sites have shown you starting from complete scratch. This is all and well if you have... more »
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Ruby Symbols in 1.9—End of an Era (and a good thing, too)
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Some recent changes in Ruby 1.9 point to the transition away from symbols being immediate objects. In particular, they lose their integer... more »
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On Merb startup options and init files
bloid via novemberain.com
As #229 in merb-core shows, people try to set all of configuration options in Merb init file. This caused a hell of a lot of confusion.
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Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 Released
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Hours ago, David Heinemeier Hansson announced informally on Twitter: Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagged, the gems are on the beta server, official... more »
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Scala Lift Off - Static Companion to Ruby?
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So I went to the last half of Scala Lift Off on Saturday (only half, because the first half was taken up by my final MBA class. Ever.). I went... more »
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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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This Week in Ruby (May 12, 2008)
Highlights from the Ruby, Rails and Merb communities.
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Automating the Development Environment
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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Living on the edge (of Rails) #20 - script/dbconsole and flash.now now test-able
This week’s report covers changes from 5th May 2008 to 11th May 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
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Poll Results: What Javascript Library Do You Use?
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…and the jQ’s have it! The the time of this writing over 1500 people have responded to our latest poll “What Javascript Library Do You Use?” making it... more »
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HtmlUnit in .NET and HtmlUnit in JRuby with Celerity as fast compatible alternative to Watir
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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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Writing A Custom File Download Action Result For ASP.NET MVC
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The April CodePlex source drop of ASP.NET MVC introduces the concept of returning an ActionResult instance from action methods. ScottGu wrote about... more »
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