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Review of The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton
We take a look at the recently released second edition of "The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton and see whether it's deserves the hype.
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Rails Live CD 0.2.1 Released
Brian Ketelsen releases an update to the popular Rails Live CD Rails development and deployment environment.
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InfoQ Interview: Tim Bray on Rails, REST, Java Dynamic Languages, and More
InfoQ Ruby editor Obie Fernandez interviews Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML and current Director of Web Technologies for Sun Microsystems. We cover varied topics such as his opinions about Ruby and Rails, the impact of dynamic languages on web development, static versus dynamic typing, Sun's support of the JRuby project, Atom, and WS-* versus REST approaches to systems integration.
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Screencast Gets You Up To Speed With REST on Rails in 90 Minutes
Noted Rails trainer and developer, Geoffrey Grosenbach, releases a screencast covering Rails 1.2's REST functionality.
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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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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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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.
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24.37% of Web Developers to Try Ruby in Next 12 Months
A recent SitePoint survey of 5000 Web developers show 24.37% are set to try Ruby in the next year.
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InfoQ Article: From Java to Ruby - Risk
"Ruby is risky" is a common perception. As Ruby on Rails moves closer to the mainstream, that risk will decrease. In this article, Bruce Tate examines the changing risk profiles for Java and Ruby from a managers perspective, examining Java's initial adoption and also common risk myths about Rails.
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Top 20 Rails CMS Plugins and Tools
The 'unofficial Ruby on Rails blog' looks at twenty different content management systems created in Ruby on Rails.
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Ruby 1.8.5 Released Quietly; Breakpointer Now Broken
Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby's 'benevolent dictator', releases Ruby 1.8.5 into the wild, though it's not without its problems.
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A Rails memory leak profiling solution
Scott Laird was dealing with the difficulties of finding memory leaks in his Rails apps and came up with solution. Scott put the code for his solution up on his blog, respondents have already called it an essential tools they'll use on their projects going forward, and Scott promised to package it up as a plugin eventually.
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InfoQ Article: Why Would a .NET Programmer Learn Ruby on Rails?
.NET developer Stephen Chu gives us some insight into his transition to Ruby on Rails programming. Quote: "By being loyal to one technology stack, I am bound to unconsciously make biased decisions, which will ultimately hinder my ability to deliver business value."
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REST on Rails: An Enterprise Developer's Overview
Bruce Tate presents an enterprise-level introduction to the use of Representational State Transfer (REST) in the Ruby on Rails framework.
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Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails
Well-known Railer Rabble launches a companion blog to his upcoming O'Reilly book covering the important topics of testing and debugging Ruby on Rails.