ruby

Rails 2.1 introduction with scaffolding

Tuesday, August 5. 2008

The Agile Web Development weblog is running a series on installing and using Ruby on Rails 2.1, including this step-by-step tutorial on creating a rails project.

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Using the Ruby Development Tools plug-in for Eclipse

Sunday, July 27. 2008

If you're a Ruby programmer looking to start using an IDE for development, you might consider looking at Eclipse, the Java-based development platform from IBM. To help you along with it, they have provided an updated guide to using the Ruby plugin.

Be warned that Eclipse is fairly resource hungry; you'll need a lot of memory to get it performing adequately.

Posted by Paul in ruby at 09:07 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Ruby quick-reference chart

Monday, June 16. 2008

Ruby programmers will love this quick reference chart from zenspider, which gives a good run-down of the whole language, plus a substantial part of the standard library, all on one page.

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The first Rails 2.1 tutorial.

Wednesday, May 28. 2008

Ruby on Rails 2.1 is due very soon now, and Akita on Rails are claiming to be the first to launch a tutorial directly targetting this release.

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Compiler writing in Ruby

Wednesday, May 21. 2008

Vidar Hokstad is running a series on writing a compiler in Ruby.

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Sustainable Development in Ruby

Saturday, April 19. 2008

The Virtuous Code blog is currently running a series on sustainable development in Ruby, looking at ways to keep your code clean and maintainable:

Part 1 - Good Old-Fashioned Inheritance

Part 2 - Method Injection

Part 3 - Delegation

Posted by Paul in ruby at 06:43 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

JRuby 1.1 released

Wednesday, April 9. 2008

The JRuby team have today released JRuby 1.1, with a major goal of improving the performance. Memory consumption has also been improved, along with compatibility fixes and a refactored I/O implementation.

The new release can be downloaded here.

Posted by Paul in java, ruby at 12:33 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

XMPP in Ruby

Wednesday, April 9. 2008

The latest edition of Linux Gazette is out, and this month, they have an article on using Ruby's xmpp4r library for instant messaging. xmpp4r implements the XMPP protocol, the backbone of Jabber.

Posted by Paul in ruby at 06:12 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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