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Kevin Rutherford on Refactoring Ruby And Code Smells

Community
Agile,
Ruby
Topics
Code Analysis,
Dynamic Languages

Kevin Rutherford talks about the challenges of refactoring Ruby code, and his open source tool 'reek' which automates the discovery of certain code smells in Ruby code.

News about Ruby

Four NoSQL Add-ons available for Heroku Users

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
NoSQL,
Ruby on Rails

The first four NoSQL datastores are available as Add-ons for the Heroku PaaS (platform-as-a-service) platform. Using the Add-on system that was introduced in October 2009, CouchDB from Cloudant, Membase from NorthScale, MongoDB from MongoHQ and Redis were made available for Heroku users.

QConSF Nov 3-5 Coming Up: Highlights and Most Popular Sessions, Join us!

Community
Agile,
.NET,
Architecture,
Ruby,
SOA,
Java,
Operations
Topics
Announcements

The QConSF schedule is developing fast with over half the schedule posted! QCon will be held Nov 3-5th at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco; QCon is a practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. Registration is $1,595 (a $500 savings) until August 27th.

Articles about Ruby

A Blend of Java and Ruby - The Mirah Language

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
Language Design,
Language,
Compilers,
Dynamic Languages

Mirah is a new language for the JVM that can do everything the Java language can do - but with a Ruby-ish syntax and powerful metaprogramming. InfoQ talks to Mirah's creator Charles Nutter.

Virtual Panel: State of the Art in Enterprise Flex Frameworks

Community
.NET,
Ruby,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps

Flex 1.0 was released in March 2004 and since then Flex based RIA development has been increasingly gaining momentum. Recently Adobe released Flex 4 along with Flash Builder 4, as part of the Adobe Flash Platform technology. To assess the state of Adobe Flex for enterprise adoption, InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with the creators of popular third-party flex frameworks.

Presentations about Ruby

Introduction to Bespin - Mozilla's Web Based Code Editor

Community
Java,
.NET,
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Javascript,
Rich Internet Apps,
IDE

Joe Walker explains Bespin, Mozilla’s open source web-based code editor, its architecture and chosen implementation solution, detailing some of its features like collaboration and version control.

Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby

Community
.NET,
Ruby
Topics
Software Testing,
Scripting,
Agile Techniques,
Tools,
RubyGems,
Dynamic Languages

Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.

Interviews about Ruby

Martin Fowler and Paulo Caroli on Continuous Integration and Deployment

Community
Agile,
Java,
Architecture,
Ruby,
SOA
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Unit Testing,
Deployment / Datacenter

Martin Fowler and Paulo Caroli discuss testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment, as well as DSLs and REST.

Justin Sheehy on Riak

Community
Java,
Architecture,
Operations,
Ruby
Topics
NoSQL,
Data Access,
Performance & Scalability,
Database Design

Justin Sheehy explains how Riak was created with ideas from Amazon's Dynamo paper, Riak features and how Riak compares to other NoSQL solutions.

Books about Ruby

Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book

Community
Ruby
Topics
Dynamic Languages,
Programming

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.