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Dr Nic Williams on Rails, RailsInstaller and the Future of Ruby VMs

Topics
Runtimes,
JRuby,
Ruby on Rails

Dr Nic Williams talks about the state of the Rails community, the reasons for supporting JRuby and Rubinius implementations and for creating RailsInstaller.

News about Rails

Cloud Foundry Experiences Storage Failure

Topics
Cloud Computing,
Operations

VMware’s Cloud Foundry yesterday experienced a widespread failure of their storage infrastructure that left some users wondering why they couldn’t log into their control panels and issue vmc commands.

RubyConf China: NoSQL, Rails, and Matz on Ruby 2.0

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Database Design,
Data Access,
Ruby

The 2nd annual RubyConf China, this year in Shanghai, China, featured Ruby creator Matz who talked about Ruby Community and Ruby 2.0. InfoQ takes a look at the other talks and what tools and databases Ruby developers in and around China use.

Articles about Rails

Learning Ruby on Rails with Michael Hartl

Topics
Ruby,
Training / Certification,
Web Frameworks

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.

Architecting TekPub - Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails

Topics
Dynamic Languages,
NoSQL,
Ruby on Rails,
Unit Testing,
Ruby,
.NET,
Web Frameworks,
Architecture

TekPub is a web site devoted to developers, giving them a source of focused on-line training in various topics from Microsoft Entity Framework to writing your own blog engine using Ruby on Rails. They are an interesting case about company who started on ASP.NET MVC and quickly moved to Ruby on Rails. We had the opportunity to talk with them about their technology turnaround.

Presentations about Rails

From .NET to Ruby: Adventure, Courage, and Joy

Topics
Language,
Ruby,
Stories & Case Studies

Jeff Cohen advises on how to switch from another language to Ruby and how to integrate it into the enterprise, presenting what are Ruby’s core elements and 5 myths about Ruby and Rails.

Rails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps

Topics
Dynamic Languages,
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby,
Performance & Scalability

Neal Ford shows what ThoughtWorks learned from scaling Rails development: infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance.

Interviews about Rails

Yehuda Katz on Rails 3.x

Topics
Open Source,
Web Frameworks,
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby

Yehuda Katz talks on how Rails 3.0 has been received by the community, what are the differences compared to other similar frameworks, the impact of having different Ruby implementations, and what’s coming in Rails 3.1.

Dan Lucraft on NoSQL DBs with Rails and the Design of JRuby-based Editor RedCar

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Data Access,
Ruby,
JRuby,
Java,
Database Design,
IDE,
Profilers

Dan Lucraft talks about working with MongoDB and using asynchronous observers with Rails. Also: the design of the JRuby/SWT/HTML/Javascript-based, extensible editor RedCar.