Ruby Editors - The Choices For Non-Mac And Non-VI People
I'm on a Mac most of the time and TextMate will be pried out of my cold dead fingers. But when I'm on my Ubuntu box, glad to see there's a growing... more »
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Rolling a JRuby desktop application
Atomic Object has been developing several JRuby desktop applications over the last year. I just got finished writing up how we transform a JRuby... more »
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Ruby’s Vulnerability Handling Debacle
A bit over a week has now gone by after critical vulnerabilities in ruby’s runtime were announced and a couple of interesting developments occurred.
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SWFUpload, Paperclip and Ruby on Rails
A short guide about how to use SWFUpload along with the Paperclip plugin inside your Ruby on Rails applications
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Ruby: A Diamond of a Programming Language?
Have you heard about Ruby? It seems to be a popular topic in software development circles today. This language came to my attention at a Java... more »
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When Ruby Builds Faster Than Java: Buildr
The Java build system Maven 1.0 was released 3 years ago and has been widely adopted in the open source world and in the industry; Since then, the 2.0... more »
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Ruby Messaging Shootout: or why SQS is slow and Starling or Beanstalk might be a better option
We had to have a really fast messaging system for Devver, after testing various systems here are some results from our Ruby messaging shootout. The... more »
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Easily switch between Rails development sites with Phusion Passenger
Helpful article on how to use Passenger to manage all your Rails sites in development
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This Word, "Scaling"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. - Inigo Montoya
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The Results of our Ruby Development Survey
A few weeks ago we posted a survey of how people were using testing within the Ruby community. Here we have posted our results. Thanks to everyone who... more »
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Learning Ruby on Rails with Heroku Screencast Series
In this first episode of Learning Ruby on Rails with Heroku: 1. Introduction 2. Goal of this screencast series 3. What is Heroku? 4.... more »
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My Mixed Feelings about Ruby
There’s a lot of features of Ruby that I like, but there are some that just drive me nuts like blocks not taking blocks and the ampersand operator.... more »
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Don't call it a static or dynamic typed language!
I don't think the use of statically typed or dynamically typed language is particularly useful or informative. I think a much better term is... more »
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Redesign your site in place using Rails custom mime types
After reading Ben Smith’s classic iPhone on Rails 2 article and implementing our own iPhone site after the jump to Rails 2, I was struck at how easy... more »
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The unary ampersand in Ruby
A marshmallow toasting dragon slayer from Montréal asked about the unary &. I like this question, because when I saw it, I realized immediately... more »
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Seaside and Rails
Last time there was an another great article about Smalltalk called Back to the future for Smalltalk. Looks like a smalltalk back to the game :) It’s... more »
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10+ Collection of Ruby Quick Reference Sheets and Cheat Sheets
A great handy collection of Ruby Quick Reference cards and Cheat sheets . Select your pick and get it printed or keep it handy.
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Cheap Tricks XV - Static Collections in Java
Here's another cheap trick around reducing the common need for a static block populated list
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Ruby books, two years later (photo)
Remember Java vs. Ruby? :-P
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Rails 10x more productive, Scala 2x. Really?
Note that I’m not going to address the “Rails vs. Scala” debate, which would be better rephrased as “Ruby vs. Scala”, or “Rails vs. Lift or a... more »
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EventMachine: Fast and Scalable Event-Driven I/O Framework
EventMachine is an event-driver framework for network and concurrent programming, based on the Reactor design pattern. InfoQ talked to EventMachine... more »
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This Week in Ruby (June 26, 2008)
Highlights from the Ruby community.
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Getting ActiveScaffold 1.1.1 to Work With Rails 2.1.0
When I wrote about a Rails development container I kinda left off with “it all worked and everyone’s happy!” This post goes into a bit of detail about... more »
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Smart Model, Dumb Controller
After accepting the notion that models should be fat and controllers should be skinny, the important question is how do you know when a controller is... more »
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The Weekly Source Code 29 - Ruby and Shoes and the First Ruby Virus
This week's source is a clever "ClickOnce"-style hack for Ruby. It's cool because it brings together a number of technologies into a very clean... more »
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