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Marcel Molina on Amazon S3 Use at 37signals
Yesterday, Marcel Molina Jr. of 37signals (and member of the Rails core-team) announced the initial release of AWS::S3, a ruby library for Amazon's Simple Store Service's (S3) REST API. In this article, Marcel shares insight into the motivations and history behind his promising new library and casts light into how Amazon's web services are transforming the industry.
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Martin Fowler, Dave Thomas, Werner Vogels to speak at QCon London
Since our last announcement, the QCon conference, InfoQ and JAOO's new annual joint conference in London (March 12-16), has been making a lot of progress. The tracks have been defined, more speakers have committed to joining, and it's looking like QCon could become an important world-wide annual event.
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Follow the Progress of JRuby on Rails
Charles Nutter has been keeping an updated page of Rails test run results with JRuby that is showing how much progress has been made towards the goal of a fully-functioning JRuby on Rails.
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Rails 1.2 Release Candidate Announced
The long-anticipated release of Rails 1.2 begins this week with the announcement of Release Candidate 1, with final release expected within a few weeks. InfoQ summarizes the announcement.
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JRuby brings Rails applications to Glassfish
It is now possible to deploy Ruby on Rails applications on Glassfish. Utilizing JRuby and its growing support for Rails, Glassfish can now be used as a production platform, allowing a more robust and scalable deployment platform.
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Rails and Django Head to Head
Thanks to a couple of web developers, we now have a fairly objective comparison of Ruby on Rails and Python's Django framework. Read InfoQ's summary of the report.
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Announcing QCon: New conference in London, UK, March 12-16, by InfoQ and JAOO
A new enterprise software development conference is starting this year in London, UK, March 12-16th 2007. QCon, the InfoQ and JAOO conference, aims to become an annual event providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities with additional tracks on architecture & design, Ajax, IT in Finance, and more.
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New Version of Nitro/Og Web Framework Released
Nitro/Og provides a different model for web development in Ruby. A new version has just been released, providing a good excuse to stretch your Ruby wings and try it out.
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Article: SimpleTicket Railway Story
In this first installment of the Railway Stories series, we cover SimpleTicket, a newly open-sourced Rails app that provides insight into the progress and innovation enjoyed by Ruby on Rails advocates, and paints a vivid picture of a dynamic, modern startup.
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RubySSPI is Big News for Ruby Developers on Windows
Are you behind an ISA proxy that authenticates all traffic? This library enables your ruby scripts to authenticate with the proxy as the current user seamlessly. After a few simple steps, you should be able to successfully install things like Ruby on Rails by simply typying gem install rails, exactly how non-Windows users get to do.
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Interview: David H. Hansson on the Future of Rails
I had the pleasure of asking my friend David some hard-hitting questions about the future of Rails in the enterprise, profiting from his success and whether a vendor will fork Rails someday. He was very confident and relaxed, so there are tons of entertaining and priceless comments on Rails adoption, service-oriented architecture and scaling Rails applications...
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Tim Bray compares intrinsic qualities of Java, Rails, PHP
A firestorm was set off on a TSS thread about a slide from Tim Bray's keynote at a PHP conference with a bar graph showing PHP more scalable than Java. Tim Bray put the slide in context in a thoughtful comparison of Java, Rails, and PHP on his blog, as well giving InfoQ his own personal take on it.
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Learn More About JRuby (on Rails)
Last night Charles Oliver Nutter, one of the JRuby leads gave a 2+ hour talk on Ruby, JRuby, and JRuby on Rails to the Gateway JUG in St Louis. Slides and a transcript are available online.
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Rails Helps Service Survive Hawaii Earthquake
Spoxel.com, a document storage company successfully maintained all company services during Hawaii's recent earthquake. Among other factors, the company's leader credited their use of Ruby on Rails as part of their ability to stay up during the catastrophe.
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Raven: Building Java with Ruby
A new alternative in the building tools space is Raven. Raven allows you to use Ruby tools such as Rake and Gem to build Java projects. Build scripts are Ruby scripts, rather than being XML files, and it imports your local Maven repository and handles dependencies.