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Meet 9 Top Rails Gurus At "The Rails Edge"
The Pragmatic Programmers announce a series of 3-day workshops for developers, managers, and enthusiasts to get up to date with the latest Ruby and Rails technologies.
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Apple to Include Ruby on Rails With Next OS X Release
As the Ruby on Rails framework celebrates its second birthday, Apple announces the framework is to come with its next OS X release, Leopard.
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RubyForIIS Makes Ruby Easier on Microsoft's IIS
RubyForIIS is a new, beta package designed to make installing Ruby and Rails for use with IIS easier.
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Ruby Compilation on .Net Maturing
John Gough, a professor at Queensland University of Technology, talked about his team's work with Ruby .Net compilation at the recent Microsoft Lang.NET 2006 Symposium.
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O'Reilly: Ruby Book Sales Surpass Perl
Tim O'Reilly reports that Ruby book sales have surpassed those of Perl for the first time this quarter.
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Reviews Mixed on Google's New Project Hosting Service
Last week Google announced a new hosting service for open-source projects. Developer comments around the web have been mixed. Some developers have been impressed with the service while others feel underwhelmed.
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Bringing Scripting to the Java Platform
Scripting languages have traditionally been difficult to integrate into Java applications. A new article on the Sun Developer Network takes a look at using JSR 223 - Scripting for the Java Platform to integrate scripting into your application.
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Embedding C in Ruby for Performance
The RubyInline module, among other things, is making it easy for Ruby developers to use the power of compiled C code for significant performance gains.
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InfoQ Article: From Java to Ruby...
The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing mainstream languages like Java--even for one project--and the overall technical landscape of Ruby's capabilities.
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Better Rails Plugin Management
As the number of Rails plugins steadily increases, remembering and managing these plugins is getting increasingly difficult. Some tools are addressing the need for better plugin management.
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Can Ruby Live Without Rails? An Interview with Bruce Tate
Yakov Fain, a senior technical architect and author of numerous Java books, interviews Bruce Tate, a famous Java-turned-Ruby developer, and investigates the status of the Ruby language.
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Is there room for both Ruby on Rails and J2EE?
Aaron Rustad takes a look at the differences between Rails and J2EE in an article published by IBM developerWorks, and ultimately suggests J2EE won't be dying any time soon.
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Juggernaut: Real-time communication for your Rails views
Alex MacCaw Ruby on Rails releases Juggernaut, a Rails plugin that provides a real-time socket connection between Rails views and a message bus / data server.
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Refactoring your Rails application to be RESTful
Scott Raymond writes about how his life became easier when he refactored the application behind IconBuffet.com to using RESTful URLs.
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Ruby Support in Visual Studio Coming
The project known as "Sapphire in Steel" will provide users of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 with support for programming using Ruby and Ruby on Rails within their IDE.