Standout Jobs Need a Ruby Guru

Just a couple of weeks ago, the XRuby team released XRuby 0.2.0. XRuby is Ruby-to-Java bytecode compiler, so you can compile Ruby source code directly to Java classes. The latest version fixes several issues and adds debugging support.

Looking at the stats from the Ruby Inside Job Board, the best position, so far, got 114 applicants from Ruby Inside readers. Wow! So if you want your job to be seen by thousands of hardcore Ruby and Rails developers, consider posting. Only one new job made it to the Ruby Inside Job Board in May, but it's a good one!

Matthew Bass has written a tutorial, published by InfoQ, called "Automating File Uploads with SSH and Ruby." It provides an in-depth look into building a small Ruby script that can backup files to a remote machine over SSH using the Net-SSH and Net-SFTP libraries. It goes into quite some depth, and provides source code for a recursive backup script. If you haven't had a dig into the Net-SSH and Net-SFTP libraries yet, it's worth a look to see how the basics work.

Rack, recently announced at version 0.2 by Christian Neukirchen, is a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing Ruby web applications. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call.

Blink and you'd miss it, but Ruby Inside celebrates its first anniversary today. To commemorate it, I want to post about the history of the site, how it all came together, present some statistics, and give some blog-related tips for anyone else who wants to create a similar blog.