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Practicing Ruby: A Newsletter by Gregory Brown

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
If you've been following the Ruby scene for a while you'll have heard of Gregory Brown. He's the author of O'Reilly's Ruby Best Practices, creator of the...

Heroku Launches Facebook App Hosting Package

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Heroku, a popular Ruby webapp hosting platform that's picked up $13m in funding, has today unveiled their new Facebook App package. The package is aimed...

A Look Into Ruby’s Object Model

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
A few days ago, Burke Libbey, a Winnipeg based Ruby and Rails developer, gave a presentation called Ruby's Object Model: Metaprogramming and Other Magic...

Chronic 0.3.0 Released: Improved Natural Language Date/Time Parsing

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Tom Preston-Werner has pushed out version 0.3.0 of Chronic, the popular natural language date and time parsing library for Ruby. It's a significant release...

Writing Parsers in Ruby using Treetop

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Treetop is one of the most underrated, yet powerful, Ruby libraries out there. If you want to write a parser, it kicks ass. The only problem is unless you...

Microsoft Jettisons IronRuby Into The Open Source Community

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Back in August, Microsoft seemed to get tired of IronRuby so its project leader Jimmy Schementi jumped ship while asking the Ruby community to step up and...

MacRuby Mac App Store == Low Hanging Fruit for Rubyists

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
At its "Back To Mac" presentation yesterday, Apple unveiled the Mac App Store, an equivalent of the iOS App Store for the Mac. Given the relentless development...

The Companies Making Ruby Inside Possible in October 2010

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
It's time for us to thank the companies who help keep Ruby Inside (and often other Ruby sites) going by sponsoring our work. Luckily, they're all pretty...

Phusion Passenger 3 Released: The Next Gen of Ruby Webapp Deployment

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
We talked about the road to Passenger 3 a few months ago but Phusion have now reached the end of it with the final, production release of Passenger 3.0...

Michael Hartl’s 15 Hours of Rails 3 Screencasts

over 1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
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