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Steve Yegge Ports Rails to Javascript/Rhino
At Foo Camp this past weekend, Steve Yegge of Google gave a talk called "Google Rails Clone" where, as John Lam reports, he talked about his experience porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at Google. InfoQ summarized the community reaction and took the opportunity to speak with Steve Yegge, who was kind enough to answer some questions.
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InfoQ Interview: Rich Kilmer on the Power of Ruby
Rich Kilmer is one of the Ruby world's great conversationalists and storytellers. In this InfoQ exclusive interview, Rich tells us about using Ruby at DARPA, the research arm of the USA's military, plus how he has leveraged a variety of cutting-edge software and techniques such as Flash, DSLs, OWL and semantic web technologies in conjunction with Ruby.
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Writing Maintainable Code
Sam Gentile, Oren Eini (aka Ayende), and Frans Bouma have an ongoing debate in the .NET community about how to write maintainable code, which several others have joined. The debate mainly focuses on the question, if Test-Driven-Development (TDD), O/R-Mappers (ORM), Model-View-Presenter/Controller (MVP/MVC), and other best-practices help to improve the maintainability of software.
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Configured Rails software stacks become available
Setting up and configuring servers is tedious work, particularly if a lot of libraries are involved. The Rails community has started looking into solutions for solving this, and the first are now available.
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RubyCentral founder Chad Fowler Joins InfoEther
Chad Fowler, Founder of Ruby Central which organizes RailsConf and RubyConf announced that he has joined InfoEther, a six year old startup run by Rich Kilmer, author of FreeRIDE Ruby IDE, RubyGems package manager, as well as maintainer of RubyForge.org.
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WebLOAD: Commercial Load Testing Tool Recently Open Sourced
WebLOAD is a load testing tool from Radview that tests both for performance and also correctness. Test scripts are written in Javascript and the tool supports multiple protocols for testing all tiers of an app such as web (HTTP with Ajax support), SOAP/XML, and other protocols. This past April Radview released an open source community edition of WebLOAD under GPL, available at webload.org.
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Google SoC Series: dcov - Ruby documentation coverage analyzer
Ruby gains another tool to ensure code quality: dcov analyses Ruby code and determines the documentation coverage. We caught up with dcov developer Jeremy McAnally to talk about his plans.
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Presentation: Obie Fernandez on Agile DSL Development in Ruby
Our own InfoQ Ruby editor gives you a primer on using Ruby to develop DSLs with our exclusive presentation from the JAOO conference in Denmark.
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Reliable Messaging in Ruby with AP4R
Shun'ichi Shinohara and Kiwamu Kato have been working on bringing reliable messging to Ruby with their own API & protocol project, based on previous experiences designing a Java-based high volume messaging framework. AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, is an implementation of reliable asynchronous message processing, providing message queuing and message dispatching.
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What's a Ruby DSL and what isn't?
"Domain Specific Language" (DSL) is a popular buzzword in the Ruby community. Recently, however, doubts about the use of the term arose, particularly because it tends to be used even for ordinary APIs, simply because Ruby allows to omit parentheses. We look at some of the style debates.
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Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee honored again
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, is appointed to Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Ruby x Agile: Matz explores the relationships between Ruby and Agile
Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto recently starred in the first of six short videos exploring the relationship between Ruby and Agile methodologies. Matz features along with Kenji Hiranabe and Shintaro Kakutani. Kenji is a self confessed ‘Agile agitator’ and Japanese translator of multiple XP/Agile books. Shintaro is a strong Ruby proponent.
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Gardens Point Ruby.NET internals interview
An option for running Ruby on the CLR today is the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. A lot of work has gone into compatibility with Ruby and, recently, interoperability with other languages on the CLR. We talked to John Gough, of the Ruby.NET team, about technical details, compatibility and future plans for community participation in the project.
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Apache Solr: Lucene Based Server Provides Highly Scalable Enterprise Search
Apache Solr is a Lucene-based enterprise search server that delivers out-of-the-box indexing and query capabilities in a portable war file. Users interact with Solr via an HTTP interface, submitting content for indexing and making queries using XML documents and HTTP GET parameters.
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JRuby 1.0 Released: Bringing Ruby Compatibility to the JVM
JRuby 1.0 has been released. The release marks 9 months since commiters Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo were hired by Sun. The release is being termed as "Ruby compatible" with all known JRuby bugs causing incompatibilities with Matz's Ruby (MRI) resolved.