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- Ruby
- Topics
- Domain Specific Languages,
- Specifications,
- Language,
- Business Process Management,
- Customers & Requirements
Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subject matter expert, which allows to create maintainable specifications and documentation. The example language is shown using Ruby.
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By Jay Fields
on May 08, 2008,
News about Ruby
- Java,
- Ruby
- Topics
- JRuby,
- Performance & Scalability,
- Ruby on Rails
JRuby's 1.1.1 release brings a few improvements over the initial 1.1 release, including a fix for a problem on IBM VMs and it now ships with the JIP profiler. Users of the JRuby 1.1.x trunk can also try out a new performance improvement that promises to seriously boost startup performance. Also: a look at GSoC '08 project related to JRuby.
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By Werner Schuster
on May 06, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- SaaS,
- Performance & Scalability,
- JRuby,
- Ruby on Rails
New Relic introduces a new performance analysis tool for Rails applications. The tool is installable as a Rails plugin, and offloads the analysis to the New Relic service. We talked to New Relic's Lew Cirne about the technology behind the product.
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By Werner Schuster
on May 02, 2008,
Articles about Ruby

- Ruby
- Topics
- Technology,
- Runtimes,
- JRuby,
- Dynamic Languages,
- Debugging
A misconception lingers in the Ruby world: Ruby has no debugger. This is blatantly wrong - Ruby has debuggers, GUIs for debuggers and APIs for debuggers. InfoQ takes a close look at the state of debugging tools in the Ruby world - and finds that its debugging support is more than sufficient.
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By Werner Schuster
on Apr 19, 2008,

- Agile,
- Java,
- Architecture,
- .NET,
- Ruby,
- SOA
- Topics
- Events
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Architectures you've always wondered about, The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform, SOA, REST and the Web, Evolving Java, Banking, Agile in Practice, Programming Languages of Tomorrow, Effective Design, .NET, The Rise of Ruby.
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By Ryan Slobojan
on Apr 09, 2008,
Interviews about Ruby

- Ruby
- Topics
- Domain Specific Languages,
- Build systems
Jim Weirich, is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC and thecreator of rake, the popular make-like build tool written in Ruby. In this interview with InfoQ, Jim disccusses the birth of rake, Domain Specific Languages, and flexmock, his mocking library.
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By Jim Weirich
on Apr 17, 2008,

- Ruby
- Topics
- RubyGems,
- Package Managers
Eric Hodel talks with InfoQ about his longstanding involvement with the Ruby community, focussing on his recent role as the maintainer of RubyGems, the de facto packaging system for Ruby libraries and applications. Eric also discusses his local Ruby user group Seattle.rb and his involvement with the Ruby Hit Squad, creators of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer
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By Eric Hodel
on Mar 27, 2008,
Presentations about Ruby

- Java,
- Ruby
- Topics
- JRuby,
- Language
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.
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By Charles Nutter
on Apr 18, 2008,

- Ruby
- Topics
- Language Design,
- Javascript,
- Language,
- Dynamic Languages,
- Programming
Glenn Vanderburg makes the case for Javascript, a language long overlooked. This presentation from JAOO 2007 shows how its OOP model and other language features make it a very powerful tool and how to use these features to get the most out of the language.
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By Glenn Vanderburg
on Mar 29, 2008,
Books about Ruby

- 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.
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By Jeremy McAnally
on Jan 28, 2007,