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In-depth JRuby Q&A: What Makes JRuby Tick in 2010?

8 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
JRuby is undoubtedly the most mature of the alternative Ruby implementations. Supporting Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (mostly!) and JIT compilation, JRuby is already...

Fake Multiple Table Inheritance

8 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
For many years now a pattern has emerged in my Rails websites. Most models will have Title, Description, Online at, Offline at, Is visible, Url and Image_file_name...

Rails 3 Generators: Scaffolding

8 days ago by Ben Scofield, Technology Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Scaffolding in Rails has always been a little controversial. Originally, it was responsible for a lot of Rails’s wow factor – DHH’s blog in fifteen...

Ruby Tuesdays: RBP Chapter 6

8 days ago by Gregory Brown on Ruby Best Practices.
If you’re reading this blog, you probably know that the Ruby Best Practices book exists. Even if you haven’t read it, you might have a sense for the...

Unobtrusive, yet explicit

8 days ago by Jamis Buck on the { buckblogs :here }.
A few weeks ago I started a new side project (a string-figure catalog, not yet ready for an audience, sadly), and I figured it would be a good opportunity...

JRuby Startup Time Tips

8 days ago by Charles Oliver Nutter on Headius.
JRuby has become notorious among Ruby implementations for having a slow startup time. Some of this is the JVM's fault, since it doesn't save JIT products...

Episode 203: Routing in Rails 3

9 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Rails 3 sports a new routing interface. In this episode I show how to translate the old interface into the new one and show off a few new features....

Code Massage

10 days ago by Robert Klemme on Ruby Best Practices.
This article started out as a mental experiment and led to a surprising result. I post this mostly for the fun of it. But of course you can take something...

Canable: The Flesh Eating Permission System

10 days ago by John Nunemaker on RailsTips.org - Home.
In which I release another project, this one abstracted from a few recent apps....

Ruby RegExp match variables really are local

11 days ago by duncanbeevers on dweebd.
While reading Yehuda Katz’ blog post concerning mental models about Ruby’s behavior, I was a bit rankled by his reference to implicit locals created...