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Real world JRuby on Rails: Infectious disease reporting and management
A new project for infectious disease reporting and management system, implemented by CSI and the state of Utah, is built using JRuby on Rails (among other technologies). We talked to Mike Herrick, of the project, to find out how well JRuby on Rails fared and why it was chosen for the project.
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InfoQ China Colour Scheme Goes Gray in Consideration of Earthquake Victims
As China began a three-day official mourning period from May 19th for victims of the May 12 earthquake that happened in Sichuan Province in southwestern China, InfoQ China joined other tech sites and on Monday and changed the whole site's colour scheme to gray as an act to express its mourning.
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Merb and Rack Roundup: Merb 0.9.3, Merbunity, JRuby-Rack
A quick roundup on Merb and Rack related news: Merb 0.9.3 has recently been released. Merbunity is a new site for the Merb community. JRuby-Rack, an adapter to run Rack-based applications in a Java servlet container, was released.
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Rubinius runs Rails, Merb
A major milestone for Rubinius: Rails, ActiveRecord and Merb have successfully been run on Rubinius.
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Rails Deployment Roundup: Dreamhost with mod_rails, Capistrano 2.3, Book
Roundup of Rails deployment news, including Dreamhost's announcement of Rails support using mod_rails - after the controversy earlier this year, Capistrano 2.3 release as well as the availability of the book "Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide".
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Rails Cells: Component-Oriented Development for Rails
Rails Cells aims to bring component-oriented development to Rails with its lightweight controllers and views that can easily be shared and reused. We caught up with Nick Sutterer, one of the Cells developers, to talk about the state of the project.
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Presentation: Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby
In this presentation, Jay Fields introduces his concept of Business Natural Languages (BNL). BNLs are a type of Domain Specific Language, designed to be readable by any subject matter expert, which allows to create maintainable specifications and documentation. The example languages are implemented using Ruby.
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JRuby Roundup: 1.1.1 with Profiler, Startup Performance Boost, GSoC '08
JRuby's 1.1.1 release brings a few improvements over the initial 1.1 release, including a fix for a problem on IBM VMs and it now ships with the JIP profiler. Users of the JRuby 1.1.x trunk can also try out a new performance improvement that promises to seriously boost startup performance. Also: a look at GSoC '08 project related to JRuby.
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Rails performance analysis with New Relic
New Relic introduces a new performance analysis tool for Rails applications. The tool is installable as a Rails plugin, and offloads the analysis to the New Relic service. We talked to New Relic's Lew Cirne about the technology behind the product.
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Ruby Shoes Roundup: Ruby-Processing with JRuby, The Shoebox, GitHub
We look at the recent developments around the Ruby Shoes GUI toolkit. The Shoebox is a repository for sharing applications written using Shoes. Next to useful applications, Ruby-Processing uses JRuby to get the Processing environment into Ruby.
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MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM
OODB vendor Gemstone works on a Ruby VM called MagLev. Working with Seaside's and DabbleDB's Avi Bryant, Gemstone bases the Ruby runtime on their Smalltalk VM to offer performance and powerful persistence features. We talked to Avi Bryant and Gemstone's Bob Walker about the technology behind MagLev and the plans for it.
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Ruby Implementations Roundup: Ruby Spec, New Design Meetings, Rubinius uses C++
Busy times for Ruby implementors recently, with regular design meetings set up (next one 30th April). The work on a Ruby Spec is continuing - with projects in GSoC and plans for continous integration for Ruby 1.8.x set up. Rubinius switched from C to C++ to implement it's core VM, but continues to use Ruby as implementation language.
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CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand - Easy Server Provisioning
CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand is a SaaS platform that allows virtualized application stacks to be dynamically defined and provisioned on-demand, doing in minutes what can take hours or days. InfoQ spoke with Alexis Richardson about the service and how it helps simplify the complexity of virtualization.
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Rails Roundup: updated Agile Web development book, GSoC '08, to_proc vs Ruby 1.8.7
A look at recent Rails news, including the announcement of the 3rd edition of "Agile Web Development with Rails" by the Pragmatic Programmers and two projects accepted for Google's Summer of Code looking at Rails' performance. Finally, we look at how Rails' use of Symbol#to_proc caused this feature to be taken out of Ruby 1.8.7 and a new source for Rails news for Japanese readers.
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MountainWest RubyConf 2008 Videos
The videos from MountainWest RubyConf 2008 are all available for downloading from the Confreaks website. We selected a few videos and provide an overview and some entry points into the talks.