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  • Discover RailsKits and Stop Writing Redundant Code

    Ruby on Rails has become a popular Ruby framework for creating web applications in recent years. An aspect of creating a web application is needing to create the same base functionality which developers need to complete before moving to the heart of the application. Applications using Rails implement authentication, automated billing and other aspects of business application development.

    Robert Bazinet
    on Oct 07, 2008

  • Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design

    In this article, Joshua Bloch, head of Java on Google and former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, presents a list of maxims intended to be a concise summary of good API design guidelines. The maxims represent the abstract written by Joshua for his session "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters" held during JavaPolis 2006.

    Joshua Bloch
    on Sep 22, 2008

  • Using Ruby Fibers for Async I/O: NeverBlock and Revactor

    Rails 2.2 is schedule to be thread safe - but will blocking I/O libraries make it necessary to run multiple Ruby instances? We take a look at how non-blocking I/O and Ruby 1.9's Fibers help solve the problem. We talked to Mohammad A. Ali of the NeverBlock project and Tony Arcieri of the Revactor project.

    Werner Schuster
    on Aug 28, 2008

  • Building Scalability and Achieving Performance: A Virtual Panel

    Join our industry-heavyweight (eBay, Betfair, FiveRuns and Twitter) panel as they explore the cost of making their sites as scalable as possible, whilst tuning to get the most performance they possibly can. They explore the pros-and-cons of making their apps as awesome as possible - all the while under the pressure of their business requirements.

    James Cox
    on Jul 22, 2008

  • Ruby's Open Classes - Or: How Not To Patch Like A Monkey

    Ruby's Open Classes are powerful - but can easily be misused. This article looks at how to minimize the risk of opening classes, alternatives, and how other languages provide similar capabilities.

    Werner Schuster
    on Jul 11, 2008

  • Intro to Google Charts and gchartrb

    Google Charts is a web service for generating charts. Matthew Bass explains the basics of the Google Charts interface and the gchartrb library which makes it even easier to create the charts from Ruby code.

    Matthew Bass
    on Jun 03, 2008

  • Book Excerpt and Interview: FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby

    "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.

    Werner Schuster
    on May 19, 2008

  • A Look at Ruby Debuggers

    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.

    Werner Schuster
    on Apr 19, 2008
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    Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2008

    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.

    Ryan Slobojan
    on Apr 09, 2008

  • Interview and Book Excerpt: Ola Bini, "Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects"

    JRuby core developer Ola Bini sat down to talk with InfoQ about Ruby and how he came to be involved with JRuby. In the interview Bini talks about the challenges of developing JRuby and where it is headed in the future. In addition to the interview, InfoQ is also proud to present an excerpt from Bini's book Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects.

    Scott Delap
    on Mar 27, 2008

  • Deploying JRuby applications with Java Web Start

    JRuby is built on Java - so it can make use of Java Web Start to make it easy to deploy JRuby apps. This article walks through the necessary steps for releasing a JRuby app with Java Web Start, including: how to handle signing, setting JRuby parameters and a look at using JRuby 1.1's coming AheadOfTime (AOT) compilation feature.

    Mirko Stocker
    on Mar 07, 2008

  • NetBeans: Ruby Developer's New Best Friend (Part 3)

    In the third and final article of the Netbeans Ruby series, Roman Strobl, covers quick fixes, RSpec support, and additional plugins of use to Ruby developers.

    Roman Strobl
    on Feb 17, 2008
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