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Sequel, The Database Toolkit For Ruby
Sequel, apart from being an alternative to ActiveRecord, offers a complete Ruby toolkit to handle database operations. InfoQ had the chance to catch up with Jeremy Evans who replaced Sharon Rosner as project leader eight months ago.
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Merb Roundup: Merb 1.0, EngineYard Will Offer Merb Support
Merb 1.0 has been released. Some last minute changes included improved JRuby and Windows support (action arguments support under JRuby). Also: EngineYard announced support for Merb.
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The Ioke JVM Language: The power of Lisp and Ruby with an intuitive syntax
Ola Bini, a core JRuby developer and author of the book Practical JRuby on Rails Projects, has been developing a new language for the JVM called Ioke. This strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype based object oriented language aims to give developers the same kind of power they get with Lisp and Ruby, combined with a nice, small, regular syntax.
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JRuby 1.1.5 Released
JRuby 1.1.5 was released with many bug fixes and performance improvements, callback support in ruby-ffi, and Ruby Gems 1.3.1.
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Java GUI Testing With JRuby
GUI testing is a hard and often neglected task. We take a look at two open source solutions for writing SWT and Swing tests, SWTBot and Marathon, and how they can be used from JRuby. We talked to Ketan Padegaonkar (SWTBot) and Dakshinamurthy Karra (Marathon).
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RubyEncoder: Obfuscation and Code Protection for Ruby
RubyEncoder compiles and encrypts your Ruby files to protect them from unwanted eyes. It can also be used to restrict an application to a domain or a certain time period, to create trial versions. InfoQ talked to RubyEncoder's lead developer Alexander Belonosov.
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Embedding MacRuby For Application Scripting
The upcoming MacRuby release will have some features that allow to embed the runtime and use Ruby to script Objective-C based applications.
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Ruby Future Roundup: Ruby 1.9.0-5 Released, JRuby Skips 1.8.7, Procs#=== For Case Testing
Ruby 1.9.0-5, the feature frozen precursor of Ruby 1.9.1 has been released. Procs in 1.9.x now implement Proc#=== which allows to use as executable selectors in case-statements. Also: The JRuby team decides not to work on 1.8.7 support in the near future.
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Kenai: Project Hosting Built on JRuby on Rails
Kenai is a new project hosting platform from Sun. It offers a comprehensive set of services for open source projects, including source code management and issue-tracking, and most notably, it is built with JRuby on Rails.
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NewRelic Offers Free Rails Monitoring, Adds New Features
NewRelic now offers their Rails performance monitoring (RPM) Lite product free of charge for all Rails users. A host of new features were added to the various commercial versions of RPM.
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Fibers Roundup: NeverBlock Now Rails Compatible, "Poor Man's" Fibers For 1.8
NeverBlock released a new version of their library - this time with support for Rails and Ruby 1.8. The 1.8 support uses Amun Gupta's "Poor Man's" Fiber code which implements Fibers using Threads.
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JRuby Roundup: RCov Port Available, Ribs For Hibernate Support, Parser Stats
A port of the popular code coverage tool rcov is now available for JRuby. Ola Bini started a Hibernate-based library for persisting Ruby objects named Ribs. And finally, JRuby trunk contains a new MBean for analysing parse times.
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Dynamic Invocation Runs on OpenJDK
John Rose, a Hotspot VM developer at Sun, has announced the first successful execution of the 'invokedynamic' instruction on the OpenJDK VM. Dynamic invocation is an important feature for adapting dynamic languages to the JVM.
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JRuby 1.1.4 Released
JRuby 1.1.4 is now available and features improved and much faster Java integration, the beginnings of 1.9 compatibility, native library integration with FFI, and much more.
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Interview: Nick Sieger on JRuby
In this interview recorded at RubyFringe, Nick Sieger talks about the future of JRuby, Java Integration, and his work on JEE deployment tools for Ruby on Rails like Warbler.