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Books about Ruby
Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book
The Humble Little Ruby Book covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.
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Research on Ruby
Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Frontend
Rails developers can draw from a huge pool of libraries to build their applications. Dozens of options are available Just for templating: do you use ERB, HAML, SASS, or do you prefer a JavaScript approach with Backbone.js or Knockout.js? The possibilities are endless, so we want to find out what our readers are using, or planning to use in the future, for their frontend.
Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Deployment and Management
Rails developers can draw from a huge pool of libraries to build their applications. Dozens of options are available Just for templating: do you use ERB, HAML, SASS, or do you prefer a JavaScript approach with Backbone.js or Knockout.js? The possibilities are endless, so we want to find out what our readers are using, or planning to use in the future, for deployment and management .
What's Your Next JVM Language?
Is the Java language limiting your programmers' productivity and you're looking for an alternative? Which of the many JVM languages out there will you pick?
Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM
Since the early days of Java, there have been many frameworks and libraries that have tried to improve web developers productivity and this trend has continued with JVM languages like Groovy, Scala, JRuby, Clojure, etc. Using the new community research tool, we at InfoQ want to get YOUR opinions on the relative importance and maturity of a variety of web frameworks that are targeted for the JVM.
Presentations about Ruby
Web Framework Performance - Examples from Django and Rails by Gareth Rushgrove Posted on Mar 20, 2013
The Higher Order Rubyist by Robert Pitts Posted on Mar 18, 2013
Taking the Red Pill: The Ruby Toolbox to Start You Down the Rabbit Hole by Jamie Wright Posted on Oct 05, 2012
Polyglot Parallelism: A Case Study in Using Erlang and Ruby at Rackspace by Phil Toland Posted on Oct 02, 2012
Bootstrapping Clojure at Groupon by Tyler Jennings Posted on Sep 19, 2012
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clojure & JRuby) by Allen Rohner Posted on Aug 16, 2012
Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server) by Mark Rendle Posted on Jul 31, 2012
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News about Ruby
Microsoft Refreshed Windows Azure with Point-to-Site, Dynamic DNS, Remote PowerShell and Ruby SDK by Anand Narayanaswamy Posted on May 06, 2013
Community-Driven Research: Ruby On Rails State of Practice - Deployment and Management by Dio Synodinos Posted on Jan 15, 2013
Cloud Foundry Core: Portability Across Cloud Foundry Vendors by Kostis Kapelonis Posted on Nov 28, 2012
Community-Driven Research: What's Your Next JVM Language? by Dio Synodinos Posted on Nov 27, 2012
Twitter’s Shift from Ruby to Java Helps it Survive US Election by Charles Humble Posted on Nov 09, 2012
Ruby 2.0 Preview 1 Released, Final Release in February 2013 by Mirko Stocker Posted on Nov 06, 2012
Customize AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Configuration Files by Bienvenido David III Posted on Nov 05, 2012
Is the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now the Most Multi-Language PaaS? by Richard Seroter Posted on Nov 05, 2012
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Articles about Ruby
Interview and Book Review: The LogStash Book, Log Management Made Easy
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Aslan Brooke
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May 20, 2013
Interview and Video Review: Working with Big Data: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Visualizations
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Aslan Brooke
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May 02, 2013
The Essence of Google Dart: Building Applications, Snapshots, Isolates
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Werner Schuster
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Oct 24, 2011
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer Discusses the Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise IT
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Charles Humble
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Sep 06, 2011
QoS for Applications: A Resource Management Framework for Runtimes
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William Louth
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Jul 26, 2011
Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers
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Charles Humble
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Jul 04, 2011
Interview: Russ Olsen on "Eloquent Ruby"
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Werner Schuster
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May 26, 2011
Learning Ruby on Rails with Michael Hartl
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Robert Bazinet
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Apr 12, 2011
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Interviews about Ruby
Bob Lee on Java's Future, Lambdas, DI with Guice vs Dagger, Java and Ruby at Square by Bob Lee Posted on Jan 11, 2013
Declan Whelan on Agile Coaching, Lean Startups and the Agile Alliance by Declan Whelan Posted on Jan 03, 2013
Damian Conway on the State of Perl, Perl 6, Writing Parsers and DSLs by Damian Conway Posted on Jan 02, 2013
Laurent Sansonetti on Writing Ruby Apps for iOS with RubyMotion by Laurent Sansonetti Posted on Nov 27, 2012
Peter Bell on the State of Java, Managing Software Development Teams, Startups by Peter Bell Posted on Oct 15, 2012
Matt Wynne on BDD, Cucumber, Hexagonal Architecture by Matt Wynne Posted on Oct 08, 2012
Attila Szegedi on JVM and GC Performance Tuning at Twitter by Attila Szegedi Posted on Feb 09, 2012
Dr Nic Williams on Rails, RailsInstaller and the Future of Ruby VMs by Dr Nic Williams Posted on Sep 07, 2011
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