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- Ruby
- Topics
- Rich Client / Desktop
"FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby" is a new book about the FXRuby GUI library. InfoQ talked to the book's author Lyle Johnson. Also: an InfoQ-exclusive sample chapter from the book.
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By Werner Schuster
on May 19, 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,
News about Ruby1.9
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes
News from RubyKaigi2008—the Japanese Ruby conference held at Tsukuba from June 20 through 22—concerning the planned Ruby standardization, the Ruby 1.9 roadmap and a glimpse at upcoming features in future versions of Ruby.
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By Kaz Tajima and Mirko Stocker
on Jul 03, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- RubyGems
RubyGems 1.2 has been released with improved speed and new features such as development and runtime dependencies, and more. Upcoming versions of JRuby and Ruby 1.9 will ship with this release. Also: Tom Copeland reports changes to Rubyforge promise faster Gem releases.
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By Werner Schuster
on Jun 28, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Performance & Scalability,
- Runtimes
Antonio Cangiano started the Ruby Benchmark Suite project, which aims to collect a comprehensive set of benchmarks that users and implementers of Ruby can use to compare different implementations. We talked to Antonio about his plans and he gave us a timeframe for the next Ruby shootout.
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By Mirko Stocker
on Jun 16, 2008,
- Java,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- JRuby,
- Programming
JRuby 1.1.2 was released in time for RailsConf - coming with radically faster startup and YAML parsing and many bug fixes. Also: the final Ruby 1.8.7 release approaches. Ruby 1.8.7 preview 4, planned to be the last preview, reinstates the previously removed Symbol#to_proc, and adds Binding#eval, __method__, among some changes in number and date parsing.
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By Werner Schuster
on May 28, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Technology,
- Language,
- Runtimes,
- Dynamic Languages
Busy times for Ruby implementors recently, with regular design meetings set up (next one 30th April). The work on a Ruby Spec is continuing - with projects in GSoC and plans for continous integration for Ruby 1.8.x set up. Rubinius switched from C to C++ to implement it's core VM, but continues to use Ruby as implementation language.
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By Werner Schuster
on Apr 29, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Technology,
- Javascript,
- Runtimes,
- Scripting,
- Compilers,
- Dynamic Languages
HotRuby is a new way of running Ruby code: compile it down to Ruby 1.9 bytecode and run it in a client side interpreter written in Javascript. We take a look at what makes HotRuby work.
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By Werner Schuster
on Mar 27, 2008,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Package Managers,
- RubyGems,
- Programming
In this interview, 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 Sam Aaron
on Mar 27, 2008,