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JRuby Startup Time Tips

14 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

15 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

15 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

16 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

17 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...

Week 127

17 days ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Once again I find myself writing these notes on a train. This time it’s to Exeter along with James Weiner to meet with a potential new client. I donâ...

Guillaume Petit Winner RPCFN #6

18 days ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Guillaume Petit of France, winner of the sixth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies. Satish...

Hiring!

18 days ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Well, I’ve put this off for as long as I could, but I think now is the time to make my first hire. I’m busy enough with client work and with my own...

My talk about Twitter-Node at PDXJS

18 days ago by Rick Olson on Techno weenie.
I was recently invited to talk about my Twitter Node project at last night’s PDX Javascript Admirers meeting. I was really nervous about giving my first...

Rails 3 Generators: Say Hello!

18 days ago by Ben Scofield, Technology Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Still with me after the last batch of ported generators? Well, I’ve got something new for you this time – and by new, I mean unseen by Rails 2.3.5-looking...