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Painless Persistence with Castle ActiveRecord

Topics
Data Access,
.NET,
Database Design

This presentation by Hamilton Verissimo and Oren Eini show Castle Active Record - an ORM solution for .NET building on NHibernate. After an introduction, the presentation dives into various advanced topics and techniques for working with Castle Active Record.

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DataMapper Reaches 1.0 Milestone

Topics
Open Source,
Ruby,
Ruby on Rails

DataMapper, an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) for Ruby, arrived at a milestone recently reaching 1.0 status. The release, announced during RailsConf 2010, and coinciding with Dirkjan Bussink's presentation at the conference on the subject.

Simplify SQL Migration Scripts with SQrbL

Topics
Ruby,
Database Design

Managing SQL-based scripts can become a nightmare with time. Rails solved this with ActiveRecord Migration. Sam Livingston-Gray wrote a small standalone Ruby tool to generate hierarchical migration script. Based on the fact that SQL scripts can become very verbose and duplication-prone, Sam started SQrbL which is a mix of SQL and Ruby.

JRuby on Google App Engine Roundup: DataMapper Adapter for DataStore, Reggae

Topics
Java,
Ruby on Rails,
Data Access,
JRuby,
Ruby

While JRuby on Rails doesn't have ActiveRecord, DataMapper, an ORM often used with Merb, has gained a new adapter for Google App Engine's DataStore. Also: work on Reggae, automatic tooling for deploying Rack apps on GAE is under way.

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Introduction to ActiveMessaging for Rails

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Programming,
Ruby,
Messaging

The maintainer of ActiveMessaging for Ruby on Rails gives a comprehensive and informative introduction to his open-source framework, which enables enterprise messaging technologies to be easily integrated with Ruby on Rails applications, and is getting support from noted industry leaders such as James Strachan and Jon Tirsen.

ORM with DrySQL and ActiveRecord

Topics
Programming,
Ruby,
Ruby on Rails

ActiveRecord fails the DRY principle, especially if your database doesn't follow Rails naming conventions. As well, ActiveRecord associations and validations are redundant specifications of database constraints. Bryan wants to avoid (as much as possible) the situation where he's averse to making changes to his database schema, because of the resulting effort to change his app code.

Railway Story: SimpleTicket

Topics
Web 2.0,
Stories & Case Studies,
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby

A 5-year old, Dallas-based company named Spur is gaining attention and kudos within Ruby on Rails circles. Earlier this week it announced a new release of its popular GPL'd IT support tool named SimpleTicket. Managing Partner Alexander Muse was kind enough to share the story of SimpleTicket with InfoQ.

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JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language

Topics
Java,
Language,
Ruby,
JRuby

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.

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Charles Nutter discusses JRuby

Topics
Enterprise Architecture,
Ruby on Rails,
Compilers,
Community,
JRuby,
Ruby,
Java,
Application Servers,
Web Frameworks,
Platforms

JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses how he got involved with JRuby, Sun's involvement with JRuby, how JRuby fits into enterprise-level web applications, the possibility of a friendly fork of the OpenJDK source code, reasons for switching to JRuby, the future of JRuby, Spring and JRuby, and the Ruby community as a whole.