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RadRails 0.7.1 Released

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The latest version of RadRails, the Ruby on Rails IDE, 0.7.1, has been released for Windows, OS X and Linux. Some fixes to the reliability of starting and...

HAML: A new view template language for Rails

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
HAML is a new template language for Ruby on Rails developed by Hampton Catlin, a Canadian Rails developer. It's a high-level, heavily semantic language...

GeekUp: Free 1-day Ruby / Rails mini-conference in Manchester, UK

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
GeekUp is a community of developers in the North-West of England (a fine place by any measure) and they've put together a FREE, one-day mini conference...

Opinion: Taking Ruby to the kids?

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
I want to look at the history of the BASIC language, the uptake of novice programmers, and how Ruby could capitalize on them in the future. My first programming...

Flexible Rails: PDF book looking at Rails 1.1 + Adobe Flex 2

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Peter Armstrong has just released the initial version of his PDF-only book, Flexible Rails. It's available for $20, and anyone who buys the book now will...

7 Tricks for 'irb' and 'script/console'

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Chris Wanstrath has put together a 'mix tape' of useful tips and tricks for irb and Rails' script/console. Some great bits and pieces in there, and people...

JRuby Presentation in Video and Slides

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter have put together an online video and slide presentation along with InfoQ about JRuby. As the guys talk about Ruby and JRuby...

Chronic: Natural date parsing for Ruby

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Chronic is a natural language (English only, at present, I think) time and date parser written entirely in Ruby. It supports a staggering number of different...

Sun acquires JRuby project, brings developers in-house

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Charles Nutter, one of the developers of JRuby, a Ruby implemention running on the JVM, has announced that he and Thomas Enebo are becoming Sun Microsystems...

Adobe Releases Ruby on Rails SDK

over 6 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Mike Potter of Adobe has posted an announcement of the release of a Ruby on Rails SDK for developing 'Rich Internet Applications' using Rails and Adobe...