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Heroku Hits The Jackpot, Sells to Salesforce for $212M: The Community Reacts

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
TechCrunch reports that Salesforce.com is to acquire the popular Heroku Ruby app hosting service for approximately $212 million in cash. We first posted...

Salesforce.com Launches Database.com: The First Enterprise-Level Cloud Database?

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Many infrastructure companies have recently adopted a drip-feed pricing model - consider renting servers from Amazon EC2 or monitoring our servers with...

Thanking Ruby Inside’s November 2010 Sponsors

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
It's time for us to thank the companies who help keep Ruby Inside going by kindly sponsoring our work in return for a little community love. Luckily, they...

Summarize – Powerful Text Summarization in Ruby

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Automatic text summarization is the technique where a computer program summarizes a document. A text is put into the computer and a highlighted (summarized...

Ruby Refinements: An Overview of a New Proposed Ruby Feature

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Significant and serious improvements to the core Ruby language come along as infrequently as TextMate updates. Given that TextMate has had an update recently...

RubyMine 3.0 Released: An Improved Ruby and Rails 3.0 IDE

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
JetBrains (of IntelliJ IDEA fame) has today released RubyMine 3.0, the latest version of its cross-platform Ruby and Rails IDE. It follows on almost 18...

RubyDrop: A Dropbox Clone in Ruby

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ever used Dropbox? It's awesome. A cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, and even mobile) file syncing and backup service with 2GB for free (or 2.25GB if...

Is the Ruby Standard Library a Ghetto?

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
In The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto, Mike Perham argues that Ruby's "standard library" (all the libraries that come by default with Ruby installs) is old and...

Rails for Zombies: An Online Rails Learning Environment

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Rails for Zombies is an intriguing attempt to teach people how to use Ruby on Rails directly in the Web browser. It comes from Envy Labs (and specifically...

AppSumo: A Discount Bundle of Webapp Credits Suited to Ruby Developers

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
AppSumo is an intriguing "bad ass developer bundle" that brings together $1543 of credit for ten different Web app development related resources (most are...