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Adam Wiggins on Heroku

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes,
Performance & Scalability,
RubyGems,
Ruby on Rails

Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about how Heroku, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.

News about Rails

Cells: Components for Rails 2.3

Community
Ruby
Topics
Web Frameworks

Cells are proper components for Rails, comparable to mini controllers or "partials on steroids", just faster and object oriented. We talked to its main developer Nick Sutterer.

Ruby on Rails Security Vulnerabilities

Community
Ruby
Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Security

There has been a buzz around the Ruby on Rails community lately with discovered security vulnerabilities and subsequent updates every Rails developer should be made aware.

Articles about Rails

Building FlightCaster's Frontends for the Web and Smartphones

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Rich Client / Desktop,
Stories & Case Studies,
REST,
Performance & Scalability,
Dynamic Languages,
Ruby on Rails

In part two of InfoQ's interview with the FlightCaster team, we discuss scaling Rails on Heroku, the problems of integrating data from multiple providers and mobile smartphone applications.

Talking RubyMine with JetBrains Developer Dmitry Jemerov

Community
Ruby
Topics
Ruby on Rails,
IDE

One of the more interesting announcements recently coming to the Ruby community was the release of JetBrains RubyMine IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications. The Ruby community is known for not typically using an integrated development environment (IDE) such as .NET or Java developers use. Ruby developers usually stick to plain text editors such as TextMate, Vim and Emacs.

Presentations about Rails

Three Years of Real-World Ruby

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Language,
Performance & Scalability,
Ruby on Rails,
Dynamic Languages,
Agile Techniques,
JRuby

Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years, and the creation of a Ruby-based product 'Mingle'.

YELLOWPAGES.COM: Behind the Curtain

Community
Architecture,
Ruby,
Java
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Ruby on Rails

This talk explains how YELLOWPAGES.COM, one of the highest-traffic websites in the U.S., was written using Ruby on Rails, how it was scaled to handle the traffic and how the software architecture evolved. Also: the reasons for choosing Ruby on Rails.

Interviews about Rails

Dr Nic Williams on Sustainable Ruby Open Source Development

Community
Ruby
Topics
RubyGems,
Ruby on Rails

Dr Nic Williams talks about his Ruby open source contributions (TextMate bundles, newgem,...), and how he manages to keep his many open source projects alive while still having a life.

Geoffrey Grosenbach on PeepCode

Community
Ruby
Topics
Web Frameworks

In this interview taped at RubyFringe, Geoffrey Grosenbach talks about the Ruby and Rails community, the popular PeepCode screencasts and books, and more.