Intro to Google Charts and gchartrb
Google Charts is a web service for generating charts. Matthew Bass explains the basics of the Google Charts interface and the gchartrb library which makes it even easier to create the charts from Ruby code.
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Eric Hodel discusses RubyGems and his involvement in the Ruby Community
Eric Hodel talks with InfoQ about his longstanding involvement with the Ruby community, focussing on his recent role as the maintainer of RubyGems, the de facto packaging system for Ruby libraries and applications. Eric also discusses his local Ruby user group Seattle.rb and his involvement with the Ruby Hit Squad, creators of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer
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Pros and Cons of GitHub vs RubyForge as Gem Source
GitHub recently added its own RubyGems server with an integrated Gems release process. Only problem: these Gems are not automatically available because RubyGems defaults to RubyForge as source. We talked to RubyGems maintainer Eric Hodel, PJ Hyett from GitHub, and Tom Copeland from RubyForge about the problems and possible solutions.
Ruby PDF Generation Made Easier and Cleaner with Prawn.
There are several existing ways to generate PDF with Ruby. Unsatisfied with existing solutions, Gregory Brown decided to design his own faster library, which uses a DSL approach to generate PDF. InfoQ caught up with Gregory, who also founded a community funded development venture: Ruby Mendicant.
JRuby Roundup: 1.1.3, rcov4jr, Rubinius MVM and FFI
JRuby 1.1.3 was released with Gems 1.2, improved performance, and many other fixes. Meanwhile the library support for JRuby increases, with a JRuby version of rcov in the works, as well as ports of Rubinius' Foreign Function Interface (FFI) and its MVM API.
RubyGems Roundup: 1.2 Release, JRuby, Faster Gem Releases
RubyGems 1.2 has been released with improved speed and new features such as development and runtime dependencies, and more. Upcoming versions of JRuby and Ruby 1.9 will ship with this release. Also: Tom Copeland reports changes to Rubyforge promise faster Gem releases.
Git/Github Roundup: Ruby Books, Gems, Gitjour
Git and Github's popularity increase steadily in the Ruby space. A few Ruby related book projects are now hosted on Github. Gitjour is a new tool using the Bonjour protocol to distribute git repositories. Finally: Github makes it easy to provide gems of projects.
Rubinius runs Rails, Merb
A major milestone for Rubinius: Rails, ActiveRecord and Merb have successfully been run on Rubinius.
Eric Hodel discusses RubyGems and his involvement in the Ruby community
In this interview, Eric Hodel talks with InfoQ about his longstanding involvement with the Ruby community, focussing on his recent role as the maintainer of RubyGems, the de facto packaging system for Ruby libraries and applications. Eric also discusses his local Ruby user group Seattle.rb and his involvement with the Ruby Hit Squad, creators of the deployment automation tool Vlad the Deployer