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Experience Report: Running FIT and Fitnesse with Ruby
Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson, well known contributors to the Extreme Programming community, regularly meet in bookstores and cafes to pair program, then Ron blogs about what they've learned. Yesterday Ron wrote a detailed blow-by-blow of their experience installing and configuring Ruby/Fit, then Fitnesse on top of it. For agile practitioners, this is essential "Iteration 0" work.
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InfoQ Article: Enterprise-Ruby Wish List
Francis Cianfrocca asks "What do enterprise developers need, that they're not getting from their tools today?" Based on the answers to that question, he examines whether Ruby currently has anything valuable to offer in the form of an Enterprise Ruby wishlist.
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Jeff Bezos Suggests Outsourcing Least Important 70%; A Boost for Rails?
Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, explains 70% of a project's time is spent on inconsequential tasks and suggests these could be outsourced to third parties or technologies, such as Rails.
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FishEye 1.2: Enhancing Version Control
Cenqua has released FishEye 1.2, a commercial version control exploration tool supporting CVS and Subversion. The new version improves Subversion support, adds new visualizations, email feeds, user preferences, and administration features.
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Ruby Metaprogramming Techniques
Ola Bini looks at several common metaprogramming techniques in Ruby.
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Prototype the most popular Ajax framework across Java, .NET, & Rails communities
According to recently released survey results from Ajaxian.com, prototype is the most popular ajax framework in use, by a large margin, followed by Scriptaculous (which is built on prototype). Java-based Dojo and DWR came in 3rd . Backend platforms were also surveyed, with PHP the most used for Ajax, followed by Java, .NET, and Rails.
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Multibyte for Rails: A Unicode Solution for Rails?
The issue of proper Unicode support for Ruby on Rails continues to generate lots of discussion and development activity. The Multibyte for Rails project seems to be making progress in driving a unified solution to the problem.
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Catching up with Selenium: Testing Ajax, v0.8 Released
Selenium is a web app functional testing tool that uses JavaScript and Iframes to embed a test automation engine in your browser, allowing Selenium to execute in any JavaScript-enabled browser. InfoQ spoke to core developer Jeff Xiong to find out more about the recent 0.8 release of Selenium core. Also, InfoQ is hosting a new article showing how to use Selenium to test Ajax apps.
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Yahoo! Launches Ruby Developer Center
Yahoo! progresses with its support of Ruby with the opening of a "Ruby Developer Center" for Ruby developers who wish to access Yahoo's services.
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Domain Specific Languages: A summary of recent ideas & debates
Recent discussions have introduced new distinctions useful for understanding the use cases for DSLs. Joel Spolsky explained how the use of a DSL avoided large porting costs and simplified deployment/maintenance. Mark Dominus made the case that design patterns are a sign of language deficiency. Buko Obele says DSLs are a bad idea because they do not do a good job controlling change over time.
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New Official Ruby Site Launches
A year in the making, the newly styled official Ruby language site launches to much fanfare.
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JRuby: What happens next? Will it affect Groovy/Grails?
Since Sun's announcement of their hiring of JRuby committers Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, both as well as Tim Bray of Sun have both provided follow up answers to questions about what will happen next. The blogsphere has also began discussing the announcement in respect to other projects such as Groovy/Grails.
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Adobe Releases Flex SDK for Ruby on Rails
Adobe has released an SDK with four full examples for developing rich Internet applications using Rails and Adobe Flex technologies.
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Sun Officially Backs Ruby, Brings JRuby In-House
Charles Nutter, one of the developers of the JRuby (Ruby on JVM) project, announces JRuby is being brought into the Sun Microsystems fold.
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Presentation: JRuby - Bringing Ruby to the JVM
In this InfoQ-exclusive presentation, JRuby leads Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter show off the current state of the JRuby project, which has come a long way under their stewardship. The presentation shows compelling demonstrations of how the Ruby language and key Ruby applications can function well on the Java Virtual Machine.