Dr Nic Williams on Rails, RailsInstaller and the Future of Ruby VMs
Dr Nic Williams talks about the state of the Rails community, the reasons for supporting JRuby and Rubinius implementations and for creating RailsInstaller.
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Vertebra: EngineYard's Next Generation Cloud Computing Platform
At RailsConf 2008, Ezra Zygmuntowicz announced Vertebra, a next generation cloud computing platform that builds on Erlang, Ruby and XMPP. We talked to Ezra to learn about Vertebra, which will soon be open sourced.
Rubinius runs Rails, Merb
A major milestone for Rubinius: Rails, ActiveRecord and Merb have successfully been run on Rubinius.
MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM
OODB vendor Gemstone works on a Ruby VM called MagLev. Working with Seaside's and DabbleDB's Avi Bryant, Gemstone bases the Ruby runtime on their Smalltalk VM to offer performance and powerful persistence features. We talked to Avi Bryant and Gemstone's Bob Walker about the technology behind MagLev and the plans for it.
Railsconf 2007 Registrations Selling Quickly
Don't miss the premier event of the Ruby on Rails world coming up in late May. A majority of the registrations are already sold as the level of Ruby and Rails community excitment rides high.
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Learning Ruby on Rails with Michael Hartl
Learning a new programming language can be a daunting task and at times difficult to know where to start. Now try to learn a new web framework at the same time and you have a recipe for confusion. We had the opportunity to talk with Michael Hartl about his approach to teaching people Ruby on Rails, his book the Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial, and the excellent video series with the same title.
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Wayne Seguin on RVM and SM
Wayne Seguin explains the ideas behind the Ruby Version Manager (RVM) and the problems it solves, as well as the SM shell scripting framework.
Aaron Patterson on Rails 3.1 and Ruby Performance
Aaron Patterson talks about performance in Ruby and Rails, some of the challenges Rails and Rack pose for the Ruby GC, and much more.
Rich Kilmer on Ruby and Rails at LivingSocial
Rich Kilmer talks about the benefits of using Ruby and Rails at LivingSocial and the state of the Ruby community and Ruby in the enterprise.
