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Ruby Quicktips: A Tumblelog of Quick Ruby Tips

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby Quicktips is a Tumblr-powered tumblelog (think of a blog but in bite-sized chunks) by Daniel Pietzsch that presents a growing array of Ruby related...

Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Harmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps. Why's that cool? Well, it enables you...

5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free!

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O'Reilly) that looks into the "Ruby way" of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically...

How Ruby Manages Memory and Garbage Collection

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap is a presentation given by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta at the recent LA Ruby Conference. You only get the slides for...

Building A Well Formed Number Handling Class From Scratch

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Over on the Ruby Best Practices blog, Robert Klemme walks through the process of building a new numeric class from scratch in Ruby - taking into account...

New Relic RPM Officially Supports Rack and Sinatra – Finally!

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
New Relic's RPM, an application performance monitoring and reporting system, has today announced it has added full support for Sinatra and Rack-based Ruby...

In-depth JRuby Q&A: What Makes JRuby Tick in 2010?

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
JRuby is undoubtedly the most mature of the alternative Ruby implementations. Supporting Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (mostly!) and JIT compilation, JRuby is already...

Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments. It uses Oracle's open-source VirtualBox virtualization system...

How To Find Ruby User Groups

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share...

How To Build A Mac OS X App With XCode and MacRuby

almost 2 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Want to develop a Mac OS X app without getting waist deep in Objective C? MacRuby is the answer, and it’s now mature enough to use directly from XCode...