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Rails 1.2 On The Way Boasting New Features

over 4 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Bob Silva presents a rundown of some new features due in Rails 1.2. These minor features are in addition to the full REST support and ActiveResource, as...

SitePoint Reports 5.31% of Web Developers Using Ruby

over 4 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Josh Catone looks at the results of SitePoint's State of Web Development 2006 survey. Josh says: According to respondents Ruby is used as a development...

How to Install Ruby, Rails, MySQL, and RMagick on Windows

over 4 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The 'Unofficial Ruby on Rails Blog' has put together a great article about how to install Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and RMagick on Windows. It gives the...

Session Secrets in Ruby on Rails

over 4 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Chris Wanstrath has put together an excellent guide to sessions in Ruby on Rails. He covers a whole ton of gotchas and features that I'd never known about...

Sun acquires JRuby project, brings developers in-house

over 4 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 4 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...

Chronic: Natural date parsing for Ruby

over 4 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...

JRuby Presentation in Video and Slides

over 3 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...

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

over 3 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...

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

over 3 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...