Ruby on Rails Releases Yet Another Emergency Security Upgrade - 1.1.6August 11th, 2006 Rails has taken the right route and went for full disclosure unlike for example the WordPress team, who still believes in the flawed concept of security by obscurity. After a full assessment of the security vulnerability (details below) Rails team decided they needed yet another emergency patch to fully close the hole.
Twitter Overloaded... Again and AgainJune 26th, 2008 Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days. Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails? There was a rumor not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails.
10 Free Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Grails e-books December 12th, 2008 Ruby needs no special introduction in the world of object oriented programming. With the slow decline of Java over the years, Ruby has caught the eyes with its dynamic and reflective programming paradigms.
Ruby Development Using jEditJuly 31st, 2006 jEdit is a popular Java based code editor. I have used it extensively and highly recommend it.
On Java And Ruby CommunitiesAugust 10th, 2006 Rob Sanheim commented on Java & Ruby communities. Ruby has Dr.
Blog Buzz: Java vs PHP vs RubyJuly 12th, 2007 All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend.
Move Over Rails (RoR): We (Java Community) Have Grails, Trails and Now SailsApril 10th, 2006 The beauty about Java community is that they never shy of creating yet another framework for any new / good idea. You have seen dozens (or more) of dependency injection (IoC) frameworks.
Why Ruby And ROR Really SucksMarch 25th, 2006 Ruby and ROR fanatics have adopted a highly annoying habit of luring hapless readers with highly provocative titles like "Ruby is not ready for production. Definitive proof".
Ruby on Java = JRuby - Project to WatchDecember 18th, 2005 JRuby is a project to watch for. It implements Ruby on Java virtual machine.
Installing Ruby Extensions on SolarisJune 20th, 2006 When you are coding a C extension for Ruby, and you use mkmf to create your Ruby Makefile on a Solaris box, make install may fail. Solution:
Add -lsocket -lnsl after -lingres.
6 Ruby on Rails Video TutorialsAugust 6th, 2008 The tutorials are an intensive one-day overview of the fundamental concepts of the Ruby on Rails Web programming framework, presented by the UC Berkeley RAD Lab. The tutorials consists of six sections of approximately one hour each.
Introduction To Ruby For Java DevelopersJune 30th, 2006 Most Java programmers attempt to use Ruby like they use Java, similar to the mistakes C/C++ programmers commit when transitioning to Java. However Ruby provides a cleaner programming paradigm which if embibed can be effectively used to solve your problems.
Java versus PHP versus Python versus Ruby - Job ComparisonApril 5th, 2006 An interesting chart comparing available jobs for these four popular languages - java, php, python and ruby. All of them are extensively used for web application development.
Java Annotation based FrameworksOctober 7th, 2005 Now everyone and their Mother-in-law is jumping in the Annotation bandwagon. I believe Cedric was the first developer to come up with an annotation based framework - TestNG.
Reverse Hyping Java - Myth and realitiesDecember 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.