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Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection to Address Criticism on Large Scale Deployments
Ruby’s creator announced the move to generational garbage collection in Ruby 2.1 in what is expected to be an important performance boost for the language. The announcement took place during Barcelona Ruby Conference where Ruby’s GC was singled out as a major pain point in large scale Ruby deployments.
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Community-Driven Research: Ruby On Rails State of Practice - Testing
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 16th question about: "Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Testing". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Continuous Deployment Variables and Solutions
Paul Biggar, co-founder of CircleCI, presented on "the many ways to deploy continuously" at RubyConf 2013 in April of this year. The frequency at which deployments happen qualifies the term "continuous" and directly influences the deployment problem space. The presentation aggregates solution information gathered from CircleCI's own customer base, Facebook, IMVU, Etsy, Heroku, and Google.
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Rails 4 Released: Faster Pages With Turbolinks
The new Ruby on Rails 4 release improves page speed with Turbolinks and makes caching easier. Support for Ruby 1.8 has been dropped and Ruby 2.0 is recommended.
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Microsoft Refreshed Windows Azure with Point-to-Site, Dynamic DNS, Remote PowerShell and Ruby SDK
The recently released update to Windows Azure includes improvements to virtual networks, virtual machines, cloud services, Linux SSH support, remote powershell in addition to a new SDK for Ruby developed in association with AppFog.
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Twitter’s Shift from Ruby to Java Helps it Survive US Election
Twitter's infamous Fail Whale was absent on US presidential election day, even as Twitter's servers were handling a serge of 327,452 "tweets" per minute. The firm was able to handle this level of traffic thanks in part to a gradual shift away from Ruby to Java and Scala
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Ruby 2.0 Preview 1 Released, Final Release in February 2013
Ruby 2.0's release manager Yusuke Endoh announced the first preview release of Ruby 2.0 and a targeted release in February 2013. InfoQ talked to Yusuke to learn more about the big new features of Ruby 2.0 (Refinements, keyword arguments, Enumerator#lazy, and more) and what users need to know when upgrading.
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Customize AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Configuration Files
AWS Elastic Beanstalk can now be customized and configured via YAML configuration files. You can use configuration files to download and install packages, download and extract archives, create files, create users/groups, run commands, start and stop services, and define container settings.
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Is the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now the Most Multi-Language PaaS?
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team just added Ruby support to its Elastic Beanstalk service and now has one of the most multi-language cloud platforms available. In addition, AWS introduced support for Elastic Beanstalk in its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) so that customers can deploy and manage private versions of their web applications.
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Ruby on Rails vs. Node.js at LinkedIn
LinkedIn replaced their back-end mobile infrastructure built on Ruby on Rails with Node.js some time ago for performance and scalability reasons. A former LinkedIn team member reacted explaining what went wrong, in his opinion.
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Agile 2012 Session: Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools Workshop
The Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools (AA-FTT) workshop was held on the day before the Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas. Run as an open space, the session was open to anyone interested in talking about the future of functional testing tools and beyond.
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JRuby 1.7 Preview 1 Released: Defaults to 1.9 and Improves Performance With Invokedynamic
The first preview release of the upcoming JRuby 1.7 defaults to Ruby 1.9 runtime mode and is much faster thanks to Java 7's invokedynamic. We talked to Charles Nutter to learn more about the future of JRuby on Java 7, Fibers and his move to Red Hat.
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Ruby Slims Down for Mobile with MRuby, RubyMotion, Ruboto
In the past weeks, a number of new Ruby implementations and dialects have appeared: the lightweight, ISO compliant MRuby; and MobiRuby and RubyMotion that let you write iOS apps in Ruby.
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A Statically Compiled Ruby for iOS
A statically compiled variant of Ruby is now available for building applications that target iOS devices. Known as RubyMotion, this language and tool chain from HipByte fully conforms to Apple’s App Store guidelines.
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Phusion Passenger 3.2 Preview Released: Evented I/O, Python Support
Phusion has released a preview release of their upcoming 3.2 version of Phusion Passenger. Version 3.2 comes with a re-written ApplicationPool, I/O handling is now event-driven and the Python support became a first-class citizen.