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Entries Tagged as 'Ruby'

MagLev

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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).

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Tags: Computing · Java · Ruby