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The Unicode Debate Rekindled
The perennial debate about how best to support multibyte Unicode in Ruby is heating up again, and thanks to the progress of Rails and JRuby, this time there is more at stake...
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Article: A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails
Rails performance expert Dr. Stefan Kaes takes a look at the most common performance issues in your Rails applications and what to do about them. Advice is given regarding benchmarking, choosing a session container, caching results of expensive computations, optimizing database queries and working effectively with view helpers.
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Big Turnout for Ruby Meetup in San Francisco
Close to one hundred people attended last night's Ruby meetup at C|Net offices in San Francisco.
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Rails Testing Strategies
Popular Rails community member Kevin Olbrich published a couple of interesting and useful articles on his blog about Rails testing strategies.
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Rails Powering Online Shopping Evolution
First JadedPixel wows us with Shopify, then this week Dylan Stamat and Jonathan Siegel announce RightCart.com, a new web service that they wrote using Rails in just six weeks. Both apps are making waves in greater web universe.
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RailsDay 2006 Registration Now Open
Time to register for one of the most exciting events in the Rails universe this year. RailsDay 2006 is your chance to showcase your Rails talent and win big prizes.
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Beautiful JavaScript Windows and Dialogs for your Application
French expert user-interface programmer Sebastien Gruhier releases latest version of his beautiful Prototype Windows code, based on Prototype and compatible with Scriptaculous effects.
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New Rails Powered Sites Announced
A couple of shiny new Rails-powered websites were announced in the last couple of days. Invitika is described as SMS + mobile blogging + event planning + LBS + photos. Thebeststuffintheworld.com is a comprehensive database of, well, the best stuff in the world, just as implied by the name.
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RailsDay 2006 Announced
RailsDay 2006 is a 24 hour competition scheduled to be held in mid-June, right before RailsConf. During the contest, teams of Ruby on Rails developers from around the world will compete for valuable prizes to see who can author the best Rails application in just a day.
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Interview with Mongrel Author Zed Shaw
Well-known Rails programmer Zed Shaw was interviewed by O'Reilly. Zed talked about Ruby on Rails and his work on an up-and-coming new HTTP server named Mongrel that is winning accolades all over the community.
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Groovy gets a contribution from Oracle; ongoing Grails contributions discussed
Oracle has recently contributed an extension to the Groovy JMX MBean. An ongoing contribution is currently being discussed between Oracle and the Groovy and Grails leads about Oracle's intention to contribute ongoing engineering and QA resources to the projects. Oracle believes that better integration makes Grails potentially better suited for mainstream enterprise adoption than Rails.
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JRuby on Rails Unveiled at JavaOne
The latest version of JRuby will be presented to JavaOne attendees this week. Included in the demonstrations is a working Rails application and an ActiveRecord adapter backed by JDBC.