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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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Embedding MacRuby For Application Scripting
The upcoming MacRuby release will have some features that allow to embed the runtime and use Ruby to script Objective-C based applications.
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More Languages on top of Erlang Virtual Machine
Erlang virtual machine – BEAM – hosts an increasing number of languages. Reia, a Python/Ruby like scripting language and Lisp Flavoured Erlang have recently been released. Debasish Ghosh reflects on this trend while other authors try to outline other possible language variants inspired by Ruby or Haskell.
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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 selectors in case-statements. Also: The JRuby team decides not to work on 1.8.7 support in the near future.
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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.
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ThoughtWorks Announces Twist, Automated Functional Testing Platform
ThoughtWorks Studios has created Twist, an integrated development environment for functional testing of web and Java applications. The tool provides a single platform for documenting user stories, capturing executable requirements, developing, maintaining, running and reporting on functional tests. A free trial version of Twist is currently available for download and evaluation.
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Ruby 1.9 Roundup: State Of i18n and Unicode, Feature Freeze for 1.9.1, Gems 1.3
Work on Ruby 1.9.1, the first stable release of Ruby 1.9.x, has just passed its feature freeze milestone, the 1.9.0-5 release is just around the corner. Ruby Gems 1.3 was released and added to 1.9.x, and a few changes were added to better support Unicode with Ruby.
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Article: Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design
In this article, Joshua Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google and former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, presents a list of maxims intended to be a concise summary of good API design guidelines. The maxims represent the abstract written by Joshua for his session "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters" held during JavaPolis 2006.
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Interview: Reginald Braithwaite on Rewrite
In this interview, Reginald Braithwaite talks about his past experiences with languages, programming, and software development, and what attracted him to Ruby. He also talks about Rewrite, a collection of features which add "sexp-rewriting meta-programming to Ruby".
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Kenai: Project Hosting Built on JRuby on Rails
Kenai is a new project hosting platform from Sun. It offers a comprehensive set of services for open source projects, including source code management and issue-tracking, and most notably, it is built with JRuby on Rails.
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New Programming Q&A Web Site Goes Public
Stack Overflow, a web site for programming questions&answers, has been made public while still in beta. The site offers programmers the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from fellow coders for free, and intends to become the right source of answers for any programming question.
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NewRelic Offers Free Rails Monitoring, Adds New Features
NewRelic now offers their Rails performance monitoring (RPM) Lite product free of charge for all Rails users. A host of new features were added to the various commercial versions of RPM.
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Inaugural MerbCamp Coming October 11-12, 2008
MerbCamp, the first official gathering of the Merb community, will take place October 11-12 on the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus.