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HAML: The Beauty of Efficiency
The creator of HAML, an alternative templating language for Rails, feels that 20 minutes is all you’ll need to fall in love with its simplicity. However, a blogger named Grigsby disagrees, claiming that 2 minutes is all it takes. InfoQ investigates.
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CodeGear unveils Ruby on Rails IDE
CodeGear announced a new IDE for Ruby on Rails development based on Eclipse. Due out in in the 2nd half of 2007, this will enter a growing market of RoR development tools.
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Using SAP4Rails to Quickly Develop for SAP
Dan Mcweeny presented a case study at JavaOne on using Ruby On Rails and SAP4Rails (an open source SAP integration library). His group was able to create a specialized web 2.0 front end in 2 weeks without prior knowledge of Ruby or Rails.
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Find Memory Leaks in Your Rails Application with BleakHouse
Performance is a major issue for some Rails application. BleakHouse is a plugin that helps you find memory leaks, without using Ruby's ObjectSpace introspection.
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InfoQ Article: The MOle Plugin
The MOle, so named because it acts as the investigators agent, is a plugin that provides insight into the inner workings of Ruby on Rails in realtime, as requests come in and get processed. The author describes how the plugin came about and gives InfoQ readers a detailed introduction to his innovative plugin.
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Using Dtrace to Improve Rails Performance
InfoQ investigates how three companies recently collaborated to use DTrace, a powerful open source process introspection tool, to find and fix a substantial Rails latency issue.
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JRuby: Almost Ready for Primetime?
JRuby 0.9.9 is now out in the wild and has been declared “ready for prime time”. Ola Bini goes as far as to say: “JRuby is ready for prime time. Application developers should try their applications on JRuby NOW” InfoQ's newest Ruby reporter, Sam Aaron, investigates.
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Google SoC Series: Web-based Rails Debugger
Rails exception stack traces in the browser are a common sight for Rails developers (and sometimes users). A Google Summer of Code project aims to speed up Rails debugging by giving the developer a web-based, interactive shell to investigate the system after an exception happened. InfoQ caught up with Eugen Minciu, the developer of the project, to see what he's planning.
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Extended Rails Scaffolding with ActiveScaffold
Scaffolding is a powerful Rails feature which will generate interfaces to interact with your data-model directly. It can either be used as starting-point or administrative backend tool. But the default Rails scaffold ignores relation between models. ActiveScaffold fulfills this and comes with pretty dynamic Ajax UIs.
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A Twitter in a Teapot?
Just over a week's gone by and the community is still buzzing with the Rails scalability debate. Developers are asking the defining question: does Web 2.0 darling Twitter.com prove Rails can't scale? James Cox gives InfoQ readers a comprehensive summary.
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14 Ruby projects accepted for Google Summer of Code
14 Ruby projects were accepted for the Google Summer of Code bounty program. The projects range from a debugger for Rails, to a project writing an RSpec specification for Ruby, to protocol implementations using EventMachine and Ragel, and more.
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DHH Responds to Stateful Web Applications Row
A comprehensive description of the current debate over the place of stateful web applications, as provoked by Avi Bryant, creator of the successful Seaside framework for Smalltalk. DHH is interviewed for his views on the matter.
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Rails diagrams made easy with RailRoad
Rails is occasionally criticized for lacking modeling tools, but the well-structured architecture of Rails applications makes those tools less necessary than with other tech. However, a simple class diagram can sometimes be worth a lot. RailRoad eases the generation of model and controller class diagrams.
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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.