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Bruce Tate's "From Java to Ruby" Reviewed
Frequent technical author Bruce Tate's latest title "From Java to Ruby" takes a look at moving to Ruby from the eyes of a Java manager. Greg Sporar, Sun's Chief Netbeans evangelist reviewed the book. Javaworld today also posted a 'Ruby for Java' article.
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JRuby 0.9 Released; Runs WEBrick, Rails, RubyGems, and Rake
Released today, the JRuby 0.9 interpreter for Java can now run RubyGems, the WEBrick Ruby HTTP server, and Ruby on Rails. JRuby co-lead Thomas Enebo told InfoQ that Rake also recently started to work. JRuby 0.9 also includes a number of bug fixes, an improved YAML parser thanks to JvYAML and RbYAML projects, and all non-native standard libraries are bundled in the JRuby distribution.
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The Unicode Debate Rekindled
The perennial debate about how best to support multibyte Unicode in Ruby is heating up again, and thanks to the progress of Rails and JRuby, this time there is more at stake...
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JRuby on Rails Unveiled at JavaOne
The latest version of JRuby will be presented to JavaOne attendees this week. Included in the demonstrations is a working Rails application and an ActiveRecord adapter backed by JDBC.