March 22, 2012
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Hackety Hack begins by introducing kids to Ruby, _why’s programming language of choice. Then it explains that programming is nothing more than giving a stupid, unthinking computer your commands. You are its boss. It answers to you. And you can make it do nearly anything with simple keystrokes and enough practice.
(Full Story: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers – Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why)
February 21, 2012
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Hosted service for your private and custom gems to simplify your deployment story. Once you upload your RubyGem and enable Gemfury as a source, you can securely deploy any gem to any host. It’s simple, reliable, and hassle-free. Learn more
(Full Story: Private Gem Server in the Cloud – Gemfury)
July 18, 2011
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RAD is a framework for programming the Arduino physcial computing platform using Ruby. RAD converts Ruby scripts written using a set of Rails-like conventions and helpers into C source code which can be compiled and run on the Arduino microcontroller. It also provides a set of Rake tasks for automating the compilation and upload process.
(Full Story: Ruby Arduino Development)
July 5, 2011
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Last year the company announced that both its back-end message queue and Tweet storage had been re-written in Scala, and in the spring of 2010 the search team at Twitter started to rewrite the search engine. As part of the effort, Twitter changed the search storage from MySQL to a real-time version of Lucene. More recently the team announced that they were replacing the Ruby on Rails front-end for search with a Java server they called Blender. This change resulted in a 3x drop in search latencies.
(Full Story: Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers)
May 16, 2011
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But, let’s get a bit personal, shall we? Let’s feed it with your own e-mail, imported from your own Gmail account.
We’ll use couple of Ruby gems: Gmail to fetch the e-mail data, Tire to put them into ElasticSearch and search them, and Sinatra to create a simple web application, which will allow us to search the messages.
(Full Story: Search Your Gmail Messages with ElasticSearch and Ruby)
May 10, 2011
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Ruby developers can choose from a variety of tools to get their job done.
The Ruby Toolbox gives you an overview of these tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the corresponding source code repository on GitHub so you can find out easily what options you have and which are the most common ones in the Ruby community.
(Full Story: The Ruby Toolbox – Know your options!)
April 25, 2011
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Pry also aims to be more than an IRB replacement; it is an attempt to bring REPL driven programming to the Ruby language. It is currently not nearly as powerful as tools like SLIME for lisp, but that is the general direction Pry is heading.
(Full Story: Pry is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby)
March 22, 2011
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Mirah is currently demonstrably under heavy development as can be seen at its Github repository and there are a few issues which are currently awaiting resolution, however, it is usable right now and there are some seriously awesome features in the pipeline too. So if you’re finding that you are losing your marbles with the geological pace of Java production I implore you to give it a go. Read the code, check out the examples and get involved in the community. If nothing else it may supercharge your web app development but more likely; it may well be the best thing to happen to Java since, umm, Java.
(Full Story: Making Java Fun with Mirah)
March 10, 2011
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Ruby In Steel 2 supports Ruby 1.9.2, Ruby 1.8, JRuby and Rails 3 within Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
(Full Story: Ruby In Steel – VisualStudio Ruby IDE)
