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Databases Roundup: Data Sharding for ActiveRecord and Faster Postgres IO
In this databases roundup we take a look at DataFabric, FiveRun's recently open sourced data sharding plug-in for ActiveRecord. Also: a look at speeding up Postgres data access using the asynchronous client API and Ruby 1.9's Fibers.
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Internet Explorer 6 on its way out (or not)?
Since attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been rapidly losing market share. As the end of 2008 approaches, significant online services, vendors and web frameworks are dropping support for IE6. Will this year be the end of IE6 and what does this signify for Web 2.0 developers?
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Erlang and Ruby Roundup: Vertebra, Scaling with Fuzed, Github
Recently a few popular Ruby projects have started using Erlang. We look at how EngineYard's Vertebra, Powerset's Fuzed and recently Github make use of Erlang.
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37signals Uses New Relic's Rails Performance Monitoring Solution
New Relic announced that 37signals uses their Ruby on Rails performance management solution to find problematic areas in their applications. David Heinemeier Hansson confirmed that they achieved a 50% speedup in certain actions.
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Engine Yard Closes $15 Million in Series B Financing
Investment from New Enterprise Associates, Amazon.com, and Benchmark Capital to help company keep position as leading Rails in cloud provider.
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Metaprogramming Roundup: Speed, Ruby Macros, Screencasts
A look at what to watch out for in metaprogramming when it comes to speed, and: how ParseTree can be used to implement LISP/Scheme-style Macros in Ruby and avoid some of the issues of Open Classes.
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RubyKaigi 2008: Standardization, 1.9 Roadmap
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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RubyKaigi 2008: Interview With Ruby Creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
The annual RubyKaigi conference took place from June 20 through 22 at Tsukuba, Japan. The first day held a discussion between Ruby's father Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and Eihiro Saishu about the role of Ruby in enterprise systems and the new Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer certification program.
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Google Releases Open Source Web Application Security Assessment Tool
Google has announced the open source release of "ratproxy" - a passive web application security assessment tool.
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Presentation: Security (CAS and OpenID) with Ruby
In this presentation from QCon SF 2007, Justin Gehtland explains two open solutions to distributed identity and their Rails integration components: the OpenID system (using ruby-openid) and CAS (using rubycas-client).
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RubyGems Roundup: 1.2 Release, JRuby, Faster Gem Releases
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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EventMachine: Fast and Scalable Event-Driven I/O Framework
EventMachine is an event-driver framework for network and concurrent programming, based on the Reactor design pattern. We talked to EventMachine developer Francis Cianfrocca about the current developments and the benefits of event-driven programming.
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My "Unit Test" Aint Your "Unit Test"
Mike Hill, well-known XP contributor, came forth to make a few interesting assertions about the misunderstanding often surrounding how a TDD "unit test" differs from the "unit test" of traditional lore, and how he uses the term 'microtesting' to clear the air for new TDD'ers.
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DocTest 1.0 For Ruby Released
Included in the Python standard library, various DocTest Ruby implementations were made available starting one year ago by Tom Locke, Roger Pack, and more recently Dr Nic. We caught up with Duane Johnson who added his changes into the 1.0 version. We discussed DocTest and when docstring-driven testing should be used.
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Ruby interpreter vulnerabilities
A few vulnerabilities were found Ruby 1.8.x and 1.9.x and could potentially allow for DoS attacks or allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. Patched versions of Ruby are already available.