MagLev is a Ruby VM in the works by Gemstone that is targeted for a first release around September of 2008. I am really excited about this development. The VM will hook up to the caches and persistent store that Gemstone provides.
Avi Bryant gave a nice demo of 100 days of work on the VM. It […]
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MagLev
May 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Rails · Ruby · Smalltalk
Rails and AIR
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
I went to a tutorial for Powering Rails with AIR at the RailsConf2008. There are some neat capabilities there. One cool app they showed was their TwitterFriends which is a related-objects-graph application. I could care less for Twitter, but I could imagine using this same thing for analyzing informal networks within a company (eg. hooking […]
Tags: Ruby
A good Git/Capistrano tutorial
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Scott Chacon put out a good tutorial video at http://jointheconversation.org/railsgit for using git and Capistrano with Rails development.
Tags: Ruby
Meta-Programming in Smalltalk vs. Ruby
September 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I am both a Rubyist & a Smalltalker. I enjoy both environments immensely and use them for different purposes. In a recent flurry of posts, James Robertson over at Cincom completely misunderstood the point Neal Ford was making about the meta-programming facilities Ruby offers versus the facilities Smalltalk offers, or better yet the […]
Tags: Computing · Software · Ruby · Smalltalk
JRuby
May 20th, 2007 · No Comments
WOH! I wasn’t very excited about JRuby until I went to the “JRuby on Rails” session at RailsConf 2007! Check it out. Also, check out GlassFish from Sun (an open source application server).