More is Better
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Now that we've gotten Rails integration working with GlassFish, you'd think that we'd be done, and we could move on to making AIs to make toast for... more »
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How to Create Own Form-Helpers in Rails
There's a simple article with explanations and example, how you could write own form-helper methods for a ruby-on-rails based project, so they were... more »
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HTTP Push (AKA Comet) with Orbited and Rails
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If you’ve messed around with HTTP push/Comet solutions you’ve probably discovered are a fair amount of free and commercial choices, most solutions a... more »
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Ruby Future Roundup: Ruby 1.9.0-5 Released, JRuby Skips 1.8.7, Procs#=== For Case Testing
Ruby 1.9.0-5, the feature frozen precursor of Ruby 1.9.1 has been released. Procs in 1.9.x now implement Proc#=== which allows to use as executable... more »
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Interview: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang
In this InfoQ interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools... more »
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JRuby, sharing objects across multiple runtimes. JMagLev?
JRuby + Terracotta == Maglev?
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Cross-Platform Development with JRuby and Swing
In addition to building Web and console applications with Ruby, you can write complex GUI desktop applications that run unmodified on multiple... more »
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Counting Ruby Objects on the JRuby Heap
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I got an email the other day from Michael Yuan. He had been working with some folks who were running an application on JRuby and they thought they... more »
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Little Known Ruby Secrets by Dr Nic Williams
The Path to Ruby Mastery Interview Series by Ruby Masters, provides guidance to and answers questions confronting Ruby beginners from across the... more »
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Cross-platform development with JRuby and Swing
In addition to building Web and console applications with Ruby, you can write complex GUI desktop applications that run unmodified on multiple... more »
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Developers, show me your feeds!
I have been wondering for some time now what other developers read when they are fresh out of bed with coffee in hand! If you're like me, you have... more »
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Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations
Stale caches causing inconsistent user experience and response times? Yahoo developers proposed an extension (stale-while-revalidate) to address this... more »
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Future Man provides Ruby Overview
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A superhero visits from the future to provide an overview of Ruby: brief history, support by various companies, and a slew of new books.
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7 Great Tips to Help Code With Currencies
As anyone who’s ever made an e-commerce system knows, money is everything. No, really if you don’t get your financial sums right then you can’t hope... more »
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Ruby 1.9 and Lambda Calculus
With Ruby 1.9 sneaking up on us, it’s probably time to start getting excited about new features, so here goes. Ruby 1.9 has a completely new syntax... more »
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Ruby Tools Roundup, reviewing 10 tools that can make your project better
There have been a bunch of interesting tools released for Ruby lately. I decided to write about a few of my favorite Ruby tools and give some of the... more »
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Two improvements to your Capfiles
Capistrano tips from one of the few Capistrano masters.
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Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up - step 11
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At this point the next step is some re-factoring. As it stands the compiler is very tightly tied to x86, and before it gets bigger it's worth starting... more »
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Using XRuby to Speed up Ruby Script Performance
A quick introduction to XRuby, a Java Compiler for Ruby source code to Java bytecode. While not quite able to run Rails apps just yet, there are... more »
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The Blurring Line Between Plugins and Gems
Now that there is something called gem dependencies in Rails, which refers to the ability to specify what gems a Rails application requires from... more »
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Writing a Web Service With Merb
Merb is looking like a great platform to quickly write web services in Ruby with a minimal application footprint. This article shows how to get... more »
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Top 10 web development presentations on Slideshare
A collection of 10 great development slide shows that can be found on the presentation website slideshare. Includes presentations about Javascript,... more »
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I/O in programming languages: open and read
Different programming languages have different takes on how to handle I/O. The basic way is to wrap the kernel syscalls, here's the basic open() call... more »
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Zen and the Art of the Six-Figure Linux Job
An expert in the Linux job market talks about earning a lucrative payday. Plus: the effect of H-1B visas on Linux salaries.
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