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Here's the regular update of the most interesting stories posted on RubyFlow (a community-driven Ruby news sister site to Ruby Inside) in the past couple of weeks:

Microsoft's got plans for Ruby beyond the fine IronRuby project in the shape of "ARAX" (Asynchronous Ruby and XML), a Ruby-flavored variety of the popular AJAX Web development techniques. Microsoft's Silverlight plugin will be able to process and run Ruby code that's directly within Web pages similar to how browsers process JavaScript. This allows Ruby developers to write Ruby code instead of the equivalent JavaScript as they do now.

Hours ago, David Heinemeier Hansson announced informally on Twitter:

RubyFlow - the community based companion site to Ruby Inside - has been on fire! I'm finding out about lots of new stuff on there that then gets included into Ruby Inside posts. It's the place to be if you want the most up to date Ruby and Rails news, but don't mind putting up with a bit of 'noise'.