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ruby-prof 0.6.0 Released

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Anvil (Ruby GUI App Framework) Gets an Update

There have been a bunch of interview related links coming in over the past week, so it makes sense to put them all together to give you a nice pre-Christmas injection of interesting interviews to read. Enjoy!

The Future of Web Services Presentation

Eric Hodel has just announced the release of RubyGems 1.0.0. As you probably already know, RubyGems is the de-facto package / library manager for Ruby applications and libraries, and almost every Ruby developer will have a version installed. There aren't many new features with this major version release, but lots of fixes, tweaks, and stability and usability enhancements. One key thing to note, however, is that require_gem is no longer supported, so if you have code that depends on that, you will have a little work to do before upgrading.

The TIOBE "Programming Community Index" chart for November 2007 has been released and Ruby has climbed one place from #10 to #9, overtaking JavaScript in the process. The TIOBE chart is not a particularly accurate chart of programming language use, but it provides a data point used by many. Over the last two years we've watched Ruby scale quite a few places.

jRails - Seamlessly Redefines Rails Helpers to Use jQuery Instead of Prototype