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InfoQ Interview: Dave Astels and Steven Baker on RSpec and BDD
InfoQ interviews Dave Astels and Steven Baker, two of the authors of the successful Rspec framework about enabling Behavior-Driven Development in Ruby, and the implications of moving from a test-centric point of view to one that is more specification-driven.
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Rails 1.2 slower than 1.1?
Stefan Kaes compared Rails 1.2 performance against 1.1 and found out 1.2 was 20% slower than 1.1 version.
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Great Expectations for JRuby 1.0
InfoQ catches up with the latest exciting developments out of the JRuby camp as they gear up for a big 1.0 release in time for JavaOne. Includes an exclusive interview with red-hot JRuby team member Ola Bini.
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Implementing Seaside concepts in Rails on Rails?
Why is Ruby on Rails one of the most popular web frameworks? Does Ruby on Rails introduce many new and revolutionary concepts? Or does it simply offer better implementations of old, common and well-known design practices? Does a "Rails on Seaside" concept make sense? Will Rails suffer from the effects of Bram's Law?
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REST changes in Rails Edge and RADAR
A significant change in RESTful routing has been committed to Rails Edge: semicolons are no longer be used to designate custom resources, such as for the edit and new screens of your application.
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InfoQ China Unlaunches
InfoQ's mission is to be the world's source for tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community. To maximize InfoQ's positive impact, InfoQ is extending to serve communities where English is a strong barrier, starting with China, and in a few months Japan, and hopefully Brasil by the end of the year.
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Five Common Ajax Anti-Patterns
Jack Herrington has written about common pitfalls in Ajax code, calling out five specific problems he sees often enough to consider anti-patterns: Polling on a timer when you don't need to, not inspecting the return results in the callback, passing complex XML when HTML would be better, and more.
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ActiveWarehouse, a New Step for Enterprise Ruby
ActiveWarehouse, is a significant new plugin that makes it easier to build data warehouses in Rails.
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Article: Changing the Present Case Study
In an exclusive InfoQ case study, popular author Bruce Tate reveals the technical details behind the extraordinary web 2.0 charity site, changingthepresent.org.
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Joyent Slingshot: Enable Rails Applications to Run
Hosting provider, Joyent, recently announced an early testing program for Slingshot, a framework that enables the development of Rails applications that function both online and offline.
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ThoughtWorks Releases CruiseControl.rb
ThoughtWorks announced release of CruiseControl.rb 1.0, a new open-source continuous integration tool for Ruby / Rails projects.
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Considering Grails vs Rails Benchmarks
The Grails community recently posted some unscientific benchmark numbers comparing a simple crud app written in Grails and Rails.
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Sun Hires Debian Linux Founder Ian Murdock to Run OS Platform Strategy
Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, has been hired by Sun Microsystems to head up operating system platform strategy.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon
In this article we present the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. It's a long article, but a superb way to learn all the main lessons that bloggers felt worth talking about. QCon London was InfoQ's first conference and has been quite a success.
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Ruby Domain Specific Languages Buzz
Last week the Ruby community received a good amount of material related to domain specific languages