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The Forgotten Ruby Web Frameworks
With the success of Ruby on Rails, is there a place left for other Web frameworks written in Ruby? Everyone knows Rails, some might even have heard of Merb and Camping, but has anyone heard of Nitro, Ramaze, Sinatra, IOWA or Cerise? InfoQ quickly tours these frameworks and how they are appreciated (or ignored) by the blogosphere.
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Presentation: Prototype and Script.aculo.us: spending weekends at home again
Script.aculo.us creator Thomas Fuchs gives an overview about the concepts and functionality of both Prototype and the script.aculo.us libraries, provides advice on what and what not to expect and gives pointers and hints on how to get started.
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Respect Demeter's Law through Rails Plugin
The Law of Demeter or Principle of Least Knowledge is a design guideline for developing software. It's not rare to see common Rails practices violating it. Luke Redpath brings a way to remedy this by providing Demeter's revenge plugin.
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Netbeans Ruby Support: A Detailed Walkthrough by Roman Strobl
Sun has put a large investment into Ruby in the last year with JRuby and the addition of Ruby language support to their Netbeans IDE. InfoQ will be featuring a series of articles by Netbeans Evangelist Roman Strobl exploring the new Ruby features of Netbeans. The first article takes a look at code completion, debugging, and refactoring support.
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Ruby and the hype cycle
A recent blog post on a failed Rails project caused a big debate about the viability of Ruby on Rails. A closer look at the post paints a different picture, though. We take a look at the reactions in the Ruby community, and compare this discussion with the upheaval about Twitter earlier this year.
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CodeGear Releases Ruby/Rails IDE with Intelligent Completion of Dynamic Methods
Today CodeGear released their Ruby/Rails IDE 3rdRail. Among the IDE's key features are intelligent code completion, refactoring support, and a project aware command line interface.
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Warbler: Rails Packaging for Java EE WAR files enhancement
To enable easy deployment of your Rails application to JEE Servers, Nick Sieger improved upon Goldspike with 'Warbler', a new tool to make it easier to package your Rails application into a war.
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TrimPath Junction - Bringing Rails Style MVC to JavaScript
TrimPath Junction has been quite active since it was reinvigorated by Google Gears back in July. A new OnLamp walkthrough showcases the project which bring Rails style MVC to JavaScript.
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High Performance Ruby MVC: Merb
By some accounts, Ruby on Rails request-processing has slowed 10-20% with each recent release, so Ezra Zygmuntowicz built his own Ruby-based MVC framework using some of the best parts of Rails. Recently, at the Ruby Hoedown event, Ezra demonstrated how Merb keeps the agility of ActiveRecord while focusing on high-load performance and concurrency.
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Ruby Hoedown Presentations available online
Videos of the sessions from the Ruby Hoedown conference are now available online. Topics such as Merb, Ruby tuning, VoIP with Ruby are covered, as well as Smalltalk and Ruby history and much more.
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Capistrano gets competition: Vlad the Deployer
Capistrano, a popular deployment tool for Rails, is challenged by Vlad the Deployer, a tool which offers similar functionality with a much simpler implementation. We talked to the Ruby Hit Squad group that released version 1.0 of Vlad.
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ORM with JRuby - ActiveHibernate
The ActiveHibernate project brings Hibernate features to JRuby - for those tricky ORM use cases that go beyond what ActiveRecord offers. We talked to project maintainer Johan Andries.
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Java and Web Application Development: Is Too Much Abstract A Bad Thing?
RedMonk analyst, Michael Coté, has written a lengthy opinion piece comparing Java web application development to development with frameworks such as Rails and Django. He suggests that Java applications often are developed having a "view" which is the web while other frameworks embrace the web more at their core.
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Grails Misconceptions
Marc Palmer, a Grails committer, posted about some of the common misconceptions that developers have about Grails, such as "Grails is not mature enough for me". Graeme Rocher followed up with his own list of misconceptions and questions, discussing where Grails fits in with JRuby on Rails and Ruby on Rails.
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Working with Mingle
InfoQ had some time with Mingle project engineer Jay Wallace, to use ThoughtWorks' much anticipated Mingle software and demonstrate to us how it differentiates itself from other products by being a truly agile project management tool.