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Open Source Web Services with Ruby
Ruby is a powerful language, I don't think any one will disagree on that. Well, this is about web services with Ruby :-), quite interesting...
How to ease drupal development with capistrano
A drupal development strategy that employs capistrano to sync development and production databases.Unix Signals for Live Debugging
Make use of UNIX signals to easily toggle debug mode on any process.Charles Nutter talks to JRuby Newbies
On the eve of a new JRuby course at rubylearning.org, Charles Nutter gives some advise to JRuby newbies in the form of an interview.JRuby 1.1.3 released - Getting Started with GlassFish
Going forward, JRuby point releases will be on a 3-4 week frequency. And you can always checkout the trunk and build yourself.Why Ruby Gems boost productivity
I think there is a connection between the enthusiasm of the Ruby community and the average size of a typical gem contribution. I explain my reasons in this (short) article. I'll be happy to hear what you think.New and Noteworthy in JRuby 1.1.3
JRuby 1.1.3 has been released a couple of days ago, and I wanted to highlight some of the most interesting changes in this release, from my perspective.Testing the new One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows
The One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows is evolving nicely. Take a look at its newest support for the MingW environment and what you gain from it.OSCON Evening 1 Begins, and More Portland Tips
The evening plans didn’t wait for talks to be done. The IRC channel (#oscon on irc.freenode.net) was alive with talk of prospects for dinner and drinks after the conference. I myself was torn between a group going out for Lebanese and another going to Henry’s, but opted to go with my buddies from home to Henry’s.
It was worth it. If you haven’t been, Henry’s Tavern boasts 100 beers and hard ciders on tap (oddly, the beer list is the only menu *not* online - guess it changes too frequently). There are a ton of local beers that you can’t even get on the east coast just waiting for you to try, but there are also some rare treats, like the Belgian Lambic beers, which you don’t often see on tap. The food is a little pricey, but is really good, and the staff is very friendly. 
A couple of us were in a rush to get back by 7 for the BoF sessions, and when we asked the waittress how easy it was to catch a cab, she immediately informed us that she would have the hostess call one for us. About 2 minutes later we were in a cab on our way back (we wouldn’t have made it back in time if we had to walk back to catch the light rail).
I was not one of those rushing to a BoF, so I did a little poking around the area near the convention center. It was getting dark, and I didn’t want to stray too far, but I did find a couple of points of interest. First, there’s a bank right across the street from the convention center. I’d be willing to bet that the ATM there is less than the $3 the ATM inside the center charges.
Beyond that is a paintball place. It was closed by the time I found it, and I don’t know if 
Tonight appears to be low-key from what I can tell. There’s currently no chatter on irc, the hotel bar had a few people chatting, and I might go down to catch the rush of people as they return from dinner and BoF sessions. Stay tuned tomorrow for more!
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I think I have pictures of most of the basic parts of the conference at my OSCON Flickr set, and I thoroughly enjoyed day 1 of the conference. Of course, while *day* 1 is over, *night* 1 has yet to even begin. There are lots of BoF sessions, and maybe even more smaller meetups going on, as smaller groups take to discussing things over dinner and a beer or three.
I have to say, that I occasionally pop into irc channels for conferences I’m not even at and follow up on that because I’m involved a bit in conference planning as part of my work with Python Magazine (I’m helping to organize the PyWorks conference in November). This conference seems to have a pretty happy audience, if IRC chatter is any indication (and it usually is). Sure, there are a couple of weak spots in the wireless network, there are some fuzzy projectors, and there was a little confusion regarding breakfast this morning, but the important bits have been well-covered by the OSCON organizers and the “boots on the ground” here on site. Kudos to them all.
This afternoon I hopped to a couple of different talks: one on Memcached and MySQL, and the other on A/B testing. Both contained good content. Of course, I’m a systems guy primarily, so I sort of wanted more of an overview of memcached from the point of view of an admin who is deploying it rather than a developer implementing their code around it. I still got plenty of value out of that talk, and this *is* really more of an open source *developer’s* conference, so the expectations of 99% of the people in the room were met, I’m sure.
A/B testing is just not an exciting topic, and I would imagine that peoples’ bosses made them go to that talk whether they liked it or not. Not to say the talk wasn’t good - the parts I saw (I came in after the break) were good, and I learned from it, and that was the goal. If you’re a QA/QC person, I’m sure the talk was riveting, and there were a lot of good ideas and things I’d never considered flying by in the slides.
Overall, Day 1 is a win. I’ll cover more about this evening’s events in the pre-breakfast hours tomorrow. Stay tuned!
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JRuby 1.1.3 is the third point release of JRuby 1.1. The fixes in the release are primarily performance enhancements and compatibility resolutions.IronRuby With ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype
In June, John Lam wrote about a demo he gave at Tech-Ed 2008 where he showed IronRuby running on ASP.NET MVC. He posted the code for the demo online, but it relied on an unreleased version of MVC, so the code didn’t actually work. Now that Preview 4 is out, I revisited the prototype and got it working again. I use the term working loosely here. Yeah, it works, but it is really rough around the edges. As in, get a bunch of splinters rough. At least it looks better as I did take a moment to use a CSS layout from Free CSS Templates slightly tweaked by me.A Short Course in JRuby for 3 days
Recently, JRuby has been gaining more and more attention in the Java and Ruby communities. Java is a powerful platform and there are millions of lines of Java code being written each month, that the world will have to live with for a long time from now. language, programmers willing to learn Jruby. Join Now for 3 days.
Automate Your Rails Deployment
This CitrusByte blog post gives an overview of using Phusion Passenger + Apache2 to automate rails deploymentWe ain't got no RSpec - Best Voicemail Ever
'Funny' Rails Envy Podcast Voicemail remix. In case you need a good laugh today listen to the remix, though the orginal voicemail it making some valid points. Way better than Terry Chays' PHP anthem.Rails + Gettext Crash Course
There is a quite good crash course and introduction into using of the gettext library with ruby-on-rails. Described reasons why use gettext, some initial techniques, solutions, links.
Interesting stuff.Scripting support with Axis2
Enjoy the world of scripting languages with Apache Axis2. Deploy scripting , invoke service using scripting and moreRails for PHP Developers: Function Reference
This function reference covers commonly used PHP libraries to their closest Ruby equivalents. The reference is structured very closely against the PHP reference library.Is Twitter Responsible For Rail’s Image?
Is Twitter Responsible For Rail’s Image? Personally, I think not, however let’s take a look at the subject.Friendliest console installer EVER!
Friendliest console installer EVER! Shows a snippet of the Phusion Passenger installer for Ruby on Rails.Ruby Programming/Unit testing - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Deploying Drupal with Capistrano
A case study on Drupal deployment with Capistrano. Nice code inside.Smells like a Google Search: Easily grab inbound search terms in Rails using search_sniffer
Sure you can mine your referrers in Google Analytics, but why not tailor your site to your users by peeking at what they were looking for when they found your site? The search_sniffer plugin makes it too easy to do just that.MOAR Rabbits! Dwemthy's Array in Java Refactored
Dwemthy's Array is an uber-geeky text based adventure game with a specific coding challenge built in, and is particularly suited to implementation with a dynamic language such as Ruby. What caught my attention recently, was Adrian Kuhn's implementation in Java. Despite my love-hate (or like-hate) relationship with Java, I'm always up for a coding challenge. I've taken Adrian's Java implementation and made it "MOAR META!" by using annotations and dynamic proxies.The Next Great Language
There has been a lot of talk in the last year or two about Java losing ground to newer languages and about which language is going to replace Java as the dominant language going into the next decade. After all the smoke clears, what should the reasonable person conclude? Is it time to move on?New language for this year
One of the tenants of the Pragmatic Programmer is to learn at least one new language every year. What language should you learn this year?Multi-thread scaling issues with Python and Ruby
With the advent of multi-core processors, CPU bound applications need to use multi-threading in order to be able to scale their performance beyond that offered by a single core. This provides many challenges, but an interesting aspect of this problem is to consider how the threading modules in modern programming languages such as Python and Rubycan either help or hinder this scalability. Yes, there are plenty of other programming languages in use today, but Python and especially Ruby are rapidly rising in popularity and there are some surprising limitations to be aware of when using their threading packages.Revisiting Rails Full Text Search Options
After implementing 'good enough' search functionality early in our project, we decided to circle back and take another look at the search options in Rails.Getting IronRuby Up and Running
I wanted to have a little walk-through on getting IronRuby up and running. I am normally a C# guy and this is usually a C# blog, but I think that exposure to dynamic languages is very important. Since .net is starting to get a bit dynamic (with IronPython, Boo (kinda), IronPython, and VB.net 10 (kinda)), I think that developers are going to start seeing this stuff more and more. Because of this I have created this little walk-through, but this month if you are in the Richmond VA area we are going to have our Meet and Code dinner (on the 31st of July 2008) on dynamic languages.Tracks screencast: How to get things done
This great application helps you to get more organized (Something I definitely needed!). Another good thing about it is that it requires a minimum of knowledge to be installed using the BitNami installer.The Rabbit Will Die in Java
For those unfamiliar with Dwemthy’s Array, it is a Ruby meta-programming example that is along the lines of a text-based game. The game has been put on Ward’s wiki as a challenge to Smalltalk advocates: “Go ahead and reimplement DwemthysArray!” Darren Hobbes and, recently, Nicholas Chen have taken the challenge. But never has nobody been so insane to met the challenge in the vast quagmires of Java meta-programming—not until, NOW.A close look at three Rails 2.1 bugs
Rails 2.1 introduces three annoying bugs. Let's fix them.Ruby's Open Classes - Or: How Not To Patch Like A Monkey
Ruby's Open Classes are powerful - but can easily be misused. This article looks at how to minimize the risk of opening classes, alternatives, and how other languages provide similar capabilities.Rails: Where to put the 'other' files
When starting a Rails project, four golden folders are predefined: Models, Views, Controllers, Helpers. Could we possibly need anything more? In my experience, the answer is yes. This leads to the question of, where do these extra files go?This Week in Ruby (July 11, 2008)
Highlights from the Ruby community.