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The Rails Envy Weekly Rails News Podcast

By Peter Cooper / October 10, 2007

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“Those Rails Envy guys from the Rails Vs Whatever commercials” are back again with a new project. Called, simply, the Rails Envy Podcast, Jason Seifer and Gregg Pollack discuss the weekly happenings in the Rails world. Taking the completely opposite approach to the Rails Podcast, with its interviews and indepth discussions, the Rails Envy Podcast flies through Rails’ headline news in just several minutes. They’re already on episode 2 and are publishing a new episode each Tuesday. The Pragmatic Studio sponsors the show.

As an aside, they’re also selling all of the Rails vs Whatever commercials on DVD and also have a new Rails vs .NET commercial to show. Read More

Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #5

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By Peter Cooper / October 9, 2007

Getting Started with Rubinius Interested in what’s going on with Rubinius, the new virtual machine and Ruby compiler created by Evan Phoenix? Want to install it and have a play on your own machine? Someone’s put together a great blog post called “Getting started with Rubinius” that runs through checking out Rubinius, compiling it, and digging into the code. Premailer.web – Ruby app that brings all CSS styles inlinePremailer.web is a Ruby script (and Web service) by Alex Dunae that can take an HTML file that uses external CSS files and turn it into an HTML file with all its styles declared inline. Read More

Interview with Ola Bini, author of “Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects”

By Peter Cooper / October 7, 2007

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Ola Bini is one of the core team of developers working on JRuby and the author of Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects, announced separately here on Ruby Inside. In conjunction with the launch of the book, I wanted to ask Ola some questions about his involvement with JRuby, how he used his knowledge to write the book, and where JRuby’s future is heading from here.

Ruby Inside: What areas of JRuby have you taken responsibility for? Do you tend to work directly with other team members or have you focused on areas that most interest you?

Ola Bini: Well, I’ve done much work on the surrounding parts of JRuby – things like ActiveRecord-JDBC for example. Read More

Practical JRuby on Rails Book by Ola Bini

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By Peter Cooper / October 7, 2007

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Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java is a new book by Ola Bini, a core member of the JRuby development team, and published by Apress. In its 330 pages it covers pretty much everything you need to know about deploying Rails applications on the JRuby platform and how to take advantage of the different technologies JRuby makes available to you (JDBC, JMX, Tomcat, Enterprise Java Beans, etc.) As well as covering the technologies and concepts involved, the book also walks the reader through developing and deploying a few different Rails applications from scratch. You can buy a PDF version of the book from Apress for $21.50 or the usual print version from Amazon.com for $28.37. Read More

“acts_as_conference” Rails Conference in Florida, February 2008

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By Peter Cooper / October 7, 2007

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acts_as_conference is a Rails conference taking place in Orlando, Florida on February 8 and 9, 2008, and a pretty good excuse for getting out of the cold weather up north for a couple of days. It’s currently early days in the organization of the conference, so no speakers have been announced and a call for proposals is due soon. The conference is being organized by Robert Dempsey, also known for his work on Rails For All and Atlantic Dominion Solutions. Read More

How Gregg Learned To Love Testing

By Peter Cooper / October 6, 2007

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Gregg Pollack of the always amusing RailsEnvy duo has put together a great 30 minute video presentation called “How I Learned to Love Testing” where he looks at how to test code, why to test code, the steps to take to become a testing or behavior driven development fanatic, and a live demonstration of the concepts in action. Read More

Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #4

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By Peter Cooper / October 4, 2007

Ruby on Rails Workshop and Training in New Brunswick, CanadaSpheric are hosting a Ruby on Rails training and workshop session called “Why Ruby On Rails?” in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada on October 9th – 11th.. next week! The training is with Ruby veteran, Bruce Tate, and costs $2400. The workshop, however, is free and Bruce Tate is involved directly with that too. It’s a bit off the beaten path but if you’re in eastern Canada (or even Maine!), check it out.The “UK’s first” Ruby on Rails Focused VPS HostingBrightboxFour months ago I posted “BrightBox: Finally a Rails-focused VPS in the UK? Read More

Beginning Ruby (and other Ruby books) at 50% Off!

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By Peter Cooper / October 4, 2007

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My publisher has just let me know that BookPool.com, a discount computer books store, is selling most Apress-published books at 50% off, so now Beginning Ruby is available for just $19.95 (compared to $28 on Amazon.com)! This also means you can get other Ruby and Rails books like Beginning Rails for $17.25, Practical Rails Social Networking Sites for $22.25 and Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce for $17.25.

The Back Story..
Ruby Inside was created to be a promotional site for my then in development book, Beginning Ruby. Things turned out rather differently for Ruby Inside in the end but the book came out in March 2007 and has done reasonably well. Read More

DeepTest – Run Tests Faster With Multiple Processes Simultaneously

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By Peter Cooper / October 4, 2007

DeepTest is a new library that allows you to run test suites in separate processes simultaneously. The obvious benefit is that on multiple core machines, as are becoming hip with the kids nowadays, test performance can be increased significantly. Initial tests by the developers showed that a test suite ran in half the time on a dual core machine, although real life performance is bound to vary.

With the perennial complaints from developers of how long test suites take to run, DeepTest looks like a promising development. The developers say they’re looking at implementing a similar system for RSpec in future. Read More

“Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Applications” PDF Available For Free

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By Peter Cooper / October 3, 2007

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Back in February, I did a brief review of “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Applications” written by Patrick Lenz and published by SitePoint. For my impressions of the book, refer to the review, but my opinion of the book was generally good, especially for newer Rails developers. Now SitePoint has made the book freely available in PDF format for the next two months, so if you didn’t get the book the first time around, check it out! Read More

Preview Release of Rails (TM) 2.0 Goes Live

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By Peter Cooper / October 1, 2007

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David Heinemeier Hansson gives the Rails™ community its birthday and Christmas presents all at once with the announcement of a preview release of Rails 2.0:

Behold, behold, Rails 2.0 is almost here. But before we can slap on the final stamp, we’re going to pass through a couple of trial release phases. The first is this preview release, which allows you to sample the goodies in their almost finished state.

The King goes into quite some depth and covers a wide range of different and new features that have made it into Rails 2.0.

Keep in mind that this is just a preview release, so if you’re not used to living on the edge, wait a little while until the release candidates or Rails 2.0 proper. Read More

Ruby’s Multithreading: On Processes and Threads

By Peter Cooper / September 30, 2007

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Manuel Holtgrewe presents Ruby’s Multithreading: On Processes and Threads, a great look at the processes (pun intended) involved with Ruby’s threading system and the difference between kernel level threads and pure user level threads. He then makes an argument why a process oriented system for division of labor can make more sense than a thread oriented one. Read More

Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #3

By Peter Cooper / September 29, 2007

Tracking Down a Rails App Memory LeakTom Copeland posts about how he tracked down a memory leak in a Rails application. The results are interesting. RubyGems Runs on Ruby 1.9-ishEric Hodel reports that all of the tests for RubyGems now pass on Ruby 1.9 and that a 1.9 compatible beta version will be due shortly.R2Check – Tiny app that checks your pre-Rails 2.0 apps for compatabilityMislav Marohnic has built a pretty cool Ruby script that checks the source code of a Rails app for compatibility with Rails 2.0 and then points out the changes required.Advice for Ruby Beginners – Part 1Satish Talim has posted the first part of mass interview with 13 Ruby gurus with questions surrounding topics important to Ruby newbies. Read More

First, Fully Functional Ruby 1.8 Compiler Now Complete

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By Peter Cooper / September 28, 2007

Charles Nutter says:

It is a glorious day in JRuby-land, for the compiler is now complete.

But not only is it a glorious day in JRuby-land, but in Ruby-land proper as Charles has announced that the JRuby-based Ruby 1.8 compiler is now “complete!” Excellent work guys. This is still early days, but with the leaps being made by both the JRuby, Rubinius, and Ruby 1.9 teams as of late, the state of Ruby interpretation and compilation is set to radically evolve over the next year. No longer shall our runtimes be mocked by the Pythonistas! Read More

DHH’s Keynote at RailsConf Europe 2007

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By Peter Cooper / September 28, 2007

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The guys at RailsOnWave have done a great job of recording David Heinemeier Hansson’s keynote speech at the latest RailsConf Europe and have put it online, viewable within a Flash video player. Nice work! Read More

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