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How To Find Ruby User Groups

1 day ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share...

Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby

1 day ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments. It uses Oracle's open-source VirtualBox virtualization system...

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...

New Relic RPM Officially Supports Rack and Sinatra – Finally!

13 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
New Relic's RPM, an application performance monitoring and reporting system, has today announced it has added full support for Sinatra and Rack-based Ruby...

Building A Well Formed Number Handling Class From Scratch

13 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Over on the Ruby Best Practices blog, Robert Klemme walks through the process of building a new numeric class from scratch in Ruby - taking into account...

How Ruby Manages Memory and Garbage Collection

14 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap is a presentation given by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta at the recent LA Ruby Conference. You only get the slides for...

5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free!

14 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O'Reilly) that looks into the "Ruby way" of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically...

Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby

21 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Harmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps. Why's that cool? Well, it enables you...

Ruby Quicktips: A Tumblelog of Quick Ruby Tips

25 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby Quicktips is a Tumblr-powered tumblelog (think of a blog but in bite-sized chunks) by Daniel Pietzsch that presents a growing array of Ruby related...

11 New Ruby Delights (For If/When You’re Tired of Rails 3.0)

26 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Sick of Rails 3.0 yet or still enjoying your Sinatra, Rango, Ramaze, Cramp, or totally non-Web-based development? OK - I've sniffed out 12 new, interesting...