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Ruby on Rails gets down to the Metal
The Ruby on Rails team has been busy moving Rails to the next level with the adoption of Rack. The implementation of Rack allows developers to use many available middleware pieces in their applications. This addition has allowed the Rails team to create Rails Metal, a wrapper around the generic Rack middleware which sits in front of a Rails request with access to Rails sessions.
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Interview: Yehuda Katz Explains Merb
In this interview from RubyFringe, Yehuda Katz talks about the design principles behind Merb and its focus on a stable API. Yehuda also mentions Yard, an RDoc replacement, which provides a simple way to define contracts for Ruby methods.
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Article: Book Excerpt and Interview: Aptana RadRails, An IDE for Rails Development
Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development by Javier Ramírez discusses the latest Aptana RadRails IDE, a development environment for creating Ruby on Rails applications.
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Ruboss – A Flex Framework on Rails
Ruby on Rails (ROR) is a Ruby-based open-source framework for rapid Web application development. Both Rails and RIA communities are actively seeking convergence to offer integrated solutions. The Flex framework, Ruboss, is an example. InfoQ spoke with Peter Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of Ruboss, to learn more.
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Rails 2.2 Released: A Glance at New Features
After two release candidates, Rails 2.2 has been released. We take a look at some of the major new features and improvements.
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Smooth HTTP Caching With Rack::Cache
The ways to cache a web application are numerous and often complex. Apart from the very basic page caching, Rails 2.2 introduced conditional GET through the use of HTTP headers: last_modified and etag. Following most of the internet standard caching section of RFC2616, Ryan Tomayko released Rack::Cache.
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Sequel, The Database Toolkit For Ruby
Sequel, apart from being an alternative to ActiveRecord, offers a complete Ruby toolkit to handle database operations. InfoQ had the chance to catch up with Jeremy Evans who replaced Sharon Rosner as project leader eight months ago.
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JRuby 1.1.5 Released
JRuby 1.1.5 was released with many bug fixes and performance improvements, callback support in ruby-ffi, and Ruby Gems 1.3.1.
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Performance Monitoring Roundup: Rails Core and New Relic Cooperate, FiveRuns TuneUp Supports Merb
NewRelic announced a cooperation with the Rails Core team to improve Rails performance. An opt-in feature allows to make performance data available to the Rails Core team, which can use it to figure out Rails bottlenecks in real world Rails apps. Also: FiveRuns' TuneUp performance monitoring tools now supports Merb.
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Presentation: Rockstar Memcaching
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Tobias Lütke talks about memcached, the widely used caching solution. Tobias explains how to use it and gives some practical tips on what not to do.
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RubyEncoder: Obfuscation and Code Protection for Ruby
RubyEncoder compiles and encrypts your Ruby files to protect them from unwanted eyes. It can also be used to restrict an application to a domain or a certain time period, to create trial versions. InfoQ talked to RubyEncoder's lead developer Alexander Belonosov.
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Interview: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang
In this interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools like Fuzed, god, and more.
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Merb 1.0 Coming Soon, RC1 Available Now
Web framework Merb 1.0 RC1 is now available. We talked to Merb maintainer Yehuda Katz to get an update on new features and the future of Merb.
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Interview : Discovering RailsKits with Benjamin Curtis
In this interview with Benjamin Curtis of RailsKits, compiled over the last couple weeks, we discuss how utilizing pre-built blocks of Ruby on Rails code can get your project jump-started. Benjamin talks about all of the kits his company has created and the different types of applications developers has created with these tools.
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Ruby in Steel - Free Edition includes Visual Studio
The latest free edition of Ruby In Steel now includes a free copy of Visual Studio. SapphireSteel Software released this free edition of their flagship Ruby and Rails IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Ruby In Steel.