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This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk

11 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
It's the latest Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has...

This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more

19 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, my Ruby e-mail newsletter. Headlines Vote for your 'Ruby Hero' in the Ruby Hero AwardsThe...

The Last Week in Ruby: RSpec 2.8, Redcar 0.12, Torquebox 2.0 beta, articles and more

23 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the Ruby e-mail newsletter. While I have you, be sure to follow @RubyInside on Twitter as I...

RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
RSpec 2.8 has been released, along with rspec-rails 2.8.1 for the full Rails 3.x integration experience. RSpec is a BDD-focused testing tool that's particularly...

The Past 2 Weeks in the World of Ruby: 40 Links to Bring You Up to Speed (January 2012)

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby Weekly has just tipped over 10,000 subscribers but I know not everyone is into getting their news via e-mail, so here's the latest frequent roundup...

9 Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2012

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Recently Forbes wrote about the rise of 'developernomics', noting that companies are seeing programmers as a 'safe haven' investment in otherwise troubled...

Let’s Build a Simple Video Game with JRuby: A Tutorial

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby isn't known for its game development chops despite having a handful of interesting libraries suited to it. Java, on the other hand, has a thriving...

A Lagom Review of O’Reilly’s ‘Sinatra Up and Running’

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Sinatra Up and Running is a new book published by O'Reilly and written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Hasse that covers the popular Sinatra web application...

Ludum Dare for Rubyists: An Online 48 Hour Game Coding Competition

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It's been around...

Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective

2 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
2011 is drawing to a close and I have been reminded of a post I made about a year ago: Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby. 2010 was...