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Rack 1.0 Released
Rack, the "minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks" has finally seen its 1.0 release. We talked to Rack developer Christian Neukirchen to learn what his plans for the future of Rack are.
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Interview: Geoffrey Grosenbach on PeepCode
In this interview taped at RubyFringe, Geoffrey Grosenbach talks about the Ruby and Rails community, the popular PeepCode screencasts and books, and more.
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Interview: Talking RubyMine with JetBrains Developer Dmitry Jemerov
Dmitry Jemerov is the lead developer of the RubyMine IDE project at JetBrains. RubyMine is the new integrated development environment from JetBrains focusing on helping Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers be more productive and efficient programmers.
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RiCal: A New iCalendar Library for Ruby
RiCal is an implementation of RFC2445, better known as the iCalendar format. We talked to its creator Rick DeNatale to learn why Ruby needed a new library for parsing and generating the iCalendar format.
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Heroku's Provisionless Hosting for Rails Apps is Revolutionary
Heroku debuted a commercial version of their Rails hosting solution last week, after a free beta stage that lasted over a year. Using Heroku, deployment of a new Ruby web application from scratch is accomplished with little more than a handful of commands from your terminal. No emails, phone calls or support tickets needed.
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Rails BDD with Macros, I18n,... with Remarkable
There are many ways to develop, test and integrate your Rails application: from TDD with the basic Test:Unit or ZenTest, to BDD with RSpec, Shoulda or Cucumber. Remarkable tries to unify the syntax and adds some more flavors to make your Rails BDD painless.
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RubyMine 1.0 Steps Into the Ruby IDE Ring
JetBrains, the developers of IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper among others, released its first foray into the Ruby space with RubyMine 1.0 – an IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails development.
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JRuby on Google App Engine Roundup: DataMapper Adapter for DataStore, Reggae
While JRuby on Rails doesn't have ActiveRecord, DataMapper, an ORM often used with Merb, has gained a new adapter for Google App Engine's DataStore. Also: work on Reggae, automatic tooling for deploying Rack apps on GAE is under way.
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JRuby Roundup: Google App Engine Support, BiteScript, New Compiler
With JRuby 1.2 released, the JRuby community is working on new projects such as a new Ruby to bytecode compiler, a standalone JRuby parser and a first release of the bytecode generating DSL Bitescript. Also: JRuby works on Google App Engine's newly announced Java support.
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Run Code Run: Hosted Continuous Integration
RunCodeRun is a hosted continuous integration service for Ruby projects on GitHub, developed by Relevance. We take a first look at the project and talked to its developer Rob Sanheim.
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MountainWest RubyConf 2009 Videos
MountainWest RubyConf took place from 13-14 March in Salt Lake City. All talks are available from Confreaks; we picked some interesting ones – Rails 3 and Merb, DSL design, usability on Rails, Vertebra – and give a coarse summary and some pointers into the talks.
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Ruby at Google Summer of Code 2009
Google Summer of Code 2009 now accepts applications from students. Possible Ruby mentor organizations are Ruby on Rails, Codehaus and others. We take a look at suggested/available projects.
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Interview: Tim Bray on the Future of the Web
In this interview made during QCon SF 2008, Tim Bray talks about why he is not convinced with the buzz surrounding Rich Internet Applications and shares his ideas on Cloud Computing. He also expresses his opinion regarding the debate REST vs. WS-* and the future directions web technologies will be taking.
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Rails 2.3.2 Arrives with Many Updates
The Ruby on Rails team has released the latest version of Rails, version 2.3.2. Rails 2.3.2 comes after a few months following the Rails 2.2 release and offers many significant changes which should be of interest to all Rails developers.
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Interview: Gregg Pollack and the How-To of Scaling Rails
In this interview with Gregg Pollack of Rails Envy Podcasts, Robert Bazinet talks with Gregg about the issues around scaling Rails, his involvement with New Relic and the creation of the Scaling Rails screencast series as well as other keys to scaling Rails.