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  • Git/Github Roundup: Ruby Books, Gems, Gitjour

    Git and Github's popularity increase steadily in the Ruby space. A few Ruby related book projects are now hosted on Github. Gitjour is a new tool using the Bonjour protocol to distribute git repositories. Finally: Github makes it easy to provide gems of projects.

  • Article: Intro to Google Charts and gchartrb

    Google Charts is a web service for generating charts. In this article, Matthew Bass explains the Google Charts interface and the gchartrb library which makes easy to create the Google Charts URLs from Ruby code.

  • Rubinius runs Rails, Merb

    A major milestone for Rubinius: Rails, ActiveRecord and Merb have successfully been run on Rubinius.

  • RubyGems: 1.1.0 released, now works on Rubinius

    RubyGems 1.1.0 was released with performance updates and other features. In other news: RubyGems now works on Rubinius.

  • Eric Hodel discusses RubyGems and his involvement in the Ruby community

    In this interview, Eric Hodel talks with InfoQ about his longstanding involvement with the Ruby community, focussing on his recent role as the maintainer of RubyGems, the de facto packaging system for Ruby libraries and applications. Eric also discusses his local Ruby user group Seattle.rb and his involvement with the Ruby Hit Squad, creators of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer

  • New snapshot of Ruby 1.9, plans for 1.8.7 posted

    Two months after the initial release of Ruby 1.9.0, a new snapshot 1.9.0-1 has been released. The release warrants a look, since it contains a few breaking changes and a few small additions like Proc#curry. Also: plans for Ruby 1.8.x, the next stable release were posted.

  • Ruby 1.9 released

    Ruby 1.9 has just been released, bringing a host of new features and improvements. Speed improvements come from the new YARV VM, concurrency features were updates with native threading and Fibers, and language changes such as a new Hash literal syntax tighten the language. We take a look at some of the features and where to find information about Ruby 1.9.

  • Engine Yard Bets Big on Rubinius

    One of the best kept secrets at this year's RubyConf was the working whereabouts of two of Ruby's hottest superstar developers: Ryan Davis and Eric Hodel of Seattle.rb. Ryan revealed the secret last week: they've officially joined Engine Yard to work full-time on next-generation Ruby runtime Rubinius.

  • Ruby Gems: new release and plans for inclusion in Ruby 1.9

    The new Ruby Gems release 0.9.4.5 adds optimizations and new features, such as automatic installation of platform gems. Also, it's compatible with Ruby 1.9, making it fit for inclusion in the standard Ruby 1.9 release.

  • JRuby ports of Ruby/LDAP, ruby-debug

    New ports of Ruby libraries for JRuby are being released every week. Ola Bini just released JRuby/LDAP and the work on a port of ruby-debug has reached a milestone.

  • Healthcare Startup Takes Rails Mainstream

    Guest-writer Brian Ketelsen speaks to Aaron Batalion of RevolutionHealth.com, a Ruby on Rails-powered startup that is making waves in the healthcare industry and it turns out they are also making waves in the Rails world. Find out why in this InfoQ exclusive interview.

  • Tattling on the Ruby Community

    Recently Jim Weirich, Bruce Williams, and Chad Fowler were chatting about how to improve the RubyGems platform-specific behavior, and realized that it would be really helpful to have more info about the install footprint of the Ruby community at large. That information is now available.

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