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Adam Wiggins on Heroku

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes,
Performance & Scalability,
RubyGems,
Ruby on Rails

Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about how Heroku, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.

News about Ruby on Rails

Ruby in Steel 1.5 Released, Drops IronRuby Support

Community
.NET,
Ruby
Topics
Release,
JRuby,
Ruby on Rails,
IDE

SapphireSteel Software, the developers of the Visual Studio based Ruby in Steel IDE have just released version 1.5. Among many improvements, they also dropped support for IronRuby.

Rubinius 1.0 Brings MRI 1.8 Compatibility and Near Speed Parity

Community
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes,
Ruby on Rails

Rubinius has just released their first candidate for 1.0, bringing Ruby 1.8 compatibility and near speed parity. InfoQ talked to Evan Phoenix about what it took to get here and whether Rubinius will run Rails.

Articles about Ruby on Rails

Building FlightCaster's Frontends for the Web and Smartphones

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Rich Client / Desktop,
Stories & Case Studies,
REST,
Performance & Scalability,
Dynamic Languages,
Ruby on Rails

In part two of InfoQ's interview with the FlightCaster team, we discuss scaling Rails on Heroku, the problems of integrating data from multiple providers and mobile smartphone applications.

Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster

Community
Architecture,
Ruby,
Java
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Language,
Performance & Scalability,
Dynamic Languages,
Ruby on Rails

FlightCaster, a realtime flight delay site, is built on Clojure and Hadoop for the statistical analysis. The web frontend is built with Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku. We talked to Bradford Cross about Clojure, functional programming and tips for OOP developers interested in making the jump.

Presentations about Ruby on Rails

Programming and Minimalism

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Language,
Software Craftsmanship,
Ruby on Rails,
Programming

In this talk from FutureRuby, Jonathan Dahl talks about minimalism and clarity in writing and how to use these principles in programming.

Three Years of Real-World Ruby

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Language,
Performance & Scalability,
Ruby on Rails,
Dynamic Languages,
Agile Techniques,
JRuby

Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years, and the creation of a Ruby-based product 'Mingle'.

Interviews about Ruby on Rails

Jonathan Dahl on Programming and Minimalism

Community
Ruby
Topics
Language,
Ruby on Rails,
Programming

In this interview taped at FutureRuby, Jonathan Dahl explains ways to write clear Ruby code and how to use minimalism as a guiding principle.

Dr Nic Williams on Sustainable Ruby Open Source Development

Community
Ruby
Topics
RubyGems,
Ruby on Rails

Dr Nic Williams talks about his Ruby open source contributions (TextMate bundles, newgem,...), and how he manages to keep his many open source projects alive while still having a life.