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The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One

6 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Official project sites should set the benchmark for standards relating to that project in terms of the best quality and most up to date news updates, documentation...

Careful Cutting To Get Faster RSpec Runs with Rails

6 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
A few months ago, Ruby Inside wrote about using Spork with RSpec 2 and Rails 3 in order to get a more sprightly spec run. Unfortunately, using the techniques...

Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released – What’s New?

6 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Over on the ruby-talk mailing list, Yuki "Yugui" Sonoda announced the release of Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1: It's important to note that this is not the latest...

A Review of The Book of Ruby – Pleasant Prose Meets Car-Crash Code

7 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
I don't like being negative on Ruby Inside without good reason. Trivia like DHH's test library preferences can provide a fun talking point but pointing...

Ruby 1.9.2-p290 Released: The Lowdown on Ruby’s Latest Production Release

7 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Over at the always-riveting official Ruby blog, Shota Fukumori has announced the release of Ruby 1.9.2-p290, the latest 'patchlevel' release of the current...

13 New Ruby and Rails Jobs for July 2011

7 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The Ruby and Rails job scene continues to grow through 2011 and we've got *drumroll* 13 (lucky for some) jobs to share from the Ruby Jobs board from companies...

Amazon Releases aws-sdk, An Official AWS SDK for Ruby Developers

7 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Amazon has unveiled an official Ruby SDK for AWS! Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services has been a rip-roaring success since its first publicly-available service...

RubyConf 2011 Registration Open (But For How Long?)

7 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Quick, quick, RubyConf 2011 registration has opened today and until they run out, you can buy tickets at this link. (They cost $350.) (Update July 15 -...

Thanking Ruby Inside’s June and July 2011 Sponsors

7 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby Inside wouldn't be what it is without you but it's time for me to thank the companies who also help to keep Ruby Inside going by sponsoring my work...

Ruby’s Creator, Matz, Joins Heroku

7 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby and more commonly known as Matz, has joined Heroku, the Salesforce.com-owned Ruby cloud hosting company, as its Chief...