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InfoQ Article: From Java to Ruby - Risk
"Ruby is risky" is a common perception. As Ruby on Rails moves closer to the mainstream, that risk will decrease. In this article, Bruce Tate examines the changing risk profiles for Java and Ruby from a managers perspective, examining Java's initial adoption and also common risk myths about Rails.
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Top 20 Rails CMS Plugins and Tools
The 'unofficial Ruby on Rails blog' looks at twenty different content management systems created in Ruby on Rails.
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WebORB - Easily Makes Rails Models Accessible to Flex / Flash
A new Rails plugin, WebORB, ties together the worlds of Ruby on Rails and Adobe's Flex technologies in an easy manner.
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Discovering the Patterns of Web 2.0
Tim O'Reilly recently held a workshop to discuss the emerging patterns of Web 2.0. The goal of the workshop was to build on his paper What is Web 2.0. Notable attendees included Martin Fowler, Bill Scott from Yahoo, Cal Henderson form Flickr, and Sandy Jen from Meebo. Gregor Hophe summarizd some of the key findings.
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Ruby 1.8.5 Released Quietly; Breakpointer Now Broken
Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby's 'benevolent dictator', releases Ruby 1.8.5 into the wild, though it's not without its problems.
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Starfish Brings Google-Style Distributed Processing to Ruby
An implementation of MapReduce, a process invented by Google to easily split up tasks to be performed by hundreds of machines, is brought to Ruby in a library called Starfish.
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Five Habits of Highly Effective Software Developers
What are some of the code-level practices of highly effective developers? Robert Miller wrote a detailed article on Java.NET covering 5 practices which could apply to any language, including minimalist constructors, methods with clear focus and intent, minimizing logic in mutating methods, and minimizing dependendies between behaviour methods.
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A Rails memory leak profiling solution
Scott Laird was dealing with the difficulties of finding memory leaks in his Rails apps and came up with solution. Scott put the code for his solution up on his blog, respondents have already called it an essential tools they'll use on their projects going forward, and Scott promised to package it up as a plugin eventually.
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Ruport: A Ruby Report Builder and Reporting Library
Gregory Brown releases a free library and toolset for Ruby that makes building reporting applications easy.
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Using the Eclipse IDE to develop Ruby applications
Developers already familiar with Eclipse will appreciate Tabrez Iqbal's guide to tweaking it to work well with Ruby development.
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InfoQ Article: Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?
.NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."
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REST on Rails: An Enterprise Developer's Overview
Bruce Tate presents an enterprise-level introduction to the use of Representational State Transfer (REST) in the Ruby on Rails framework.
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Opinion: Flex can transform the user experience on the web
Adobe's Christophe Coenraets, recently blogged on how Flex can transform the user experience on the web. The Flex SDK was recently made free, and combined with the ubiquity of the Flash VM, Flex could have a potential to be the platform of choice for ajax-style rich web development. Christophe stressed a number of features that are not unique by themselves yet valuable when used together.
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Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails
Well-known Railer Rabble launches a companion blog to his upcoming O'Reilly book covering the important topics of testing and debugging Ruby on Rails.
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Rails 1.1.5 Released With Crucial Security Fixes
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, urges all users to upgrade to 1.1.5 to benefit from a crucial security patch affecting all major prior versions.