On Ruby (the tumbleblog)

What is BDD?

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:02:31 -0600

Chalain: BDD: The sequel to ADD

"In terms of concurrency, if you’re writing middleware I think you owe it to yourself to look..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:14:00 -0700

“In terms of concurrency, if you’re writing middleware I think you owe it to yourself to look at Erlang. The language itself has the primitives, then there are libraries called the Open Telecom Platform that come with it, that build on those primitives to make reliable software almost simple. It’s never simple, but compared to what you have to do, jumping through hoops in other languages, it’s kind of a no-brainer.”

- Steve Vinosky

Showing the Love

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:32:56 -0700

My friends Anibal and Edgar, the developers behind has_many :developers and rubycorner.com, put up a banner ad for MountainWest RubyConf. Not only that, they were the ones who got the ball rolling to do it. Aren’t friends great?

New Erlang Book

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:02:43 -0700

This is probably interesting to a lot of Rubyists, so I’ll post it here. Yesterday, I mentioned a rumoured Erlang book from O’Reilly. Overnight, I got confirmation, and posted about it here.

"So we are just getting started on mod_rubinius here at EY. We’ve hired Eero Saynatkari ( rue in the..."

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:41:47 -0700

“So we are just getting started on mod_rubinius here at EY. We’ve hired Eero Saynatkari ( rue in the #rubinius irc channel) full time to work on the project. … We would like to hear from you folks. What would you like to see in a mod_rubinius?”

- Ezra Zygmuntowicz

"Probably the coolest thing I see is how people use Puppet in ways I hadn’t considered. I regularly..."

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:34:00 -0700

“Probably the coolest thing I see is how people use Puppet in ways I hadn’t considered. I regularly see people on the mailing list and IRC channel say “Wow – I just found out the syntax can do x”. I look at what they have posted and they have often found some new way to take advantage of the language to configure hosts. It is being part of this sort of community that makes working with Puppet very cool.”

- James Turnbull in our interview at On Ruby

"This article is the first of two that demonstrates how a Ruby on Rails application can be deployed..."

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:38:17 -0700

“This article is the first of two that demonstrates how a Ruby on Rails application can be deployed inside of WebSphere Application Server V6.1, and how Ruby on Rails applications can be integrated with WebSphere Application Server’s existing features. This marriage provides the best of both worlds: rapid development and testing while leveraging your investment in WebSphere Application Server.”

- Ryan Shillington on IBM’s Developer Works

Rubinius Runs RSpec! w00t!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:31:42 -0700

Rubinius Runs RSpec! w00t!

MountainWest RubyConf Badges

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:44:50 -0700

Planning on coming to the show (or speaking)? Wear it on your sleeve — or at least on your blog.

"Blue Box Group is proud to announce our gold sponsorship of MountainWest RubyConf."

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:37:38 -0700

“Blue Box Group is proud to announce our gold sponsorship of MountainWest RubyConf.”

- Blue Box Group LLC

Ruby for Windows (Part 1)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:05:43 -0700

Ruby for Windows (Part 1): An important post from Luis Lavena about his work on the One-Click Installer for Ruby.

Jim Weirich is one of the keynote speakers at MountainWest...

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:42:28 -0700

Jim Weirich is one of the keynote speakers at MountainWest RubyConf 2008. (Just announced today)

How sweet is this? The new Ruport book is available from lulu,...

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:44:33 -0700

How sweet is this? The new Ruport book is available from lulu, buy yours now for just $30!

The 2008 MountainWest RubyConf speakers have been announced

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:26:56 -0700

The 2008 MountainWest RubyConf speakers have been announced

forbinio

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:59:21 -0700

Defiler: It will be a crying shame if Rubinius can run Io before it can run Forth. :)

multi-VM for Rubinius

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:41:36 -0700

evan: HUZZAH!
evan: multi-VM is beginning to work
retnuH: what is multi-VM?
evan: retnuH: >>
evan: vm = Rubinius::VM.spawn "blah", "-e", "puts 'hello\n'"
evan: vm.join
evan: p vm.stdout.gets
evan: # => "hello\n"

Mongrel Lives (on Rubinius)

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:07:00 -0700

It looks like the the recent surge in Rubinius hacking is paying off. Kevin Clark reported this morning that he’s got Mongrel running on Rubinius.

"remember when ruby used to mean ‘intellectually curious’? now it seems to mean..."

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:56:02 -0600

“

remember when ruby used to mean ‘intellectually curious’? now it seems to mean ‘hacking together a web site’… we’re the php of the 21st century.

”

- Mike Moore

Giving Peter Seibel a Hand

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:27:17 -0600

Practical Common Lisp is an important book and, since it’s available for free, it’s also a great Common Lisp tutorial. Peter Seibel is asking for help in getting the word out to overcome the dry, dated, nasty lisp links that google currently likes.

Who knows, maybe if we all jump in and help with this, it will help spur another book from Peter.

"subtend is fun to write because it gets you in some of the more arcane parts of the system, but..."

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:48:39 -0600

“subtend is fun to write because it gets you in some of the more arcane parts of the system, but it’s pretty simple”

- wycats on #rubinius