Breaking news! At JRubyConf 2012 (a 3 day JRuby-focused conference in Minneapolis) it has just been announced that JRuby core team members Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter are moving from Engine Yard ...
Welcome to April 2012s bumper picknmix of Ruby and Rails news and releases, fresh from the pages of Ruby Weekly. Highlights include: Matzs new Ruby implementation, MobiRuby (Ruby for iOS), Passenger ...
And again, a mixture of travel, illness, and exhaustion have prevented me from my weekly updates on here (although Ruby Weekly is still going out on a weekly basis!) so heres a bumper update for all ...
Oops! I forgot to post the weekly Ruby news updates from Ruby Weekly to Ruby Inside in February so.. heres a mega roundup of all that was new in the Ruby and Rails worlds in February 2012. Ill try to...
Its the latest Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has a tips page where you can submit links for po...
Welcome to this weeks Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, my Ruby e-mail newsletter. Headlines Vote for your Ruby Hero in the Ruby Hero Awards The Ruby Heroes awards run each year and present 6 com...
Welcome to this weeks Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the Ruby e-mail newsletter. While I have you, be sure to follow @RubyInside on Twitter as Im going to be posting news more frequently there...
RSpec 2.8 has been released, along with rspec-rails 2.8.1 for the full Rails 3.x integration experience. RSpec is a BDD-focused testing tool thats particularly popular in the Rails world where everyo...
Ruby Weekly has just tipped over 10,000 subscribers but I know not everyone is into getting their news via e-mail, so heres the latest frequent roundup of the latest Ruby and Rails news for you, all ...
Recently Forbes wrote about the rise of developernomics, noting that companies are seeing programmers as a safe haven investment in otherwise troubled times. Maybe.. maybe not.. but the Ruby and Rail...
Ruby isnt known for its game development chops despite having a handful of interesting libraries suited to it. Java, on the other hand, has a thriving and popular game development scene flooded with ...
Sinatra Up and Running is a new book published by OReilly and written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Hasse that covers the popular Sinatra web application DSL in a brisk 103 pages, acting as a tutoria...
Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! Its been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost...
2011 is drawing to a close and I have been reminded of a post I made about a year ago: Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby. 2010 was a stunning year with the release of Ruby 1.9.2,...
Welcome to this weeks Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly - its bumper sized this week. And a big congratulations to David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, as he got married recently! Headlines...
Its a couple of days late but here are the main headlines from the last week of Ruby news. We have a couple of Rails releases, some event news, and the usual gaggle of great articles and jobs. Headli...
After last weeks bumper set of releases the Ruby world seems a lot quieter this week :-) (Even here. Ive been hidden away teaching my Ruby Reloaded course!) Headlines RSpec 2.8.0 RC1 Released The nex...
In math, a unary operation is an operation with a single input. In Ruby, a unary operator is an operator which only takes a single argument in the form of a receiver. For example, the - on -5 or ! on...
The Ruby standard library (a.k.a. stdlib) is a collection of Ruby libraries that, at one time or another, have been considered useful enough to include with the MRI Ruby implementation by standard. D...
The rapid descent of the weather towards winter is getting people to stay in and code and long may it continue given the quality of this weeks releases: OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0, and Ruby 1.9.3, for ...
Recently, there have been many screencasts of people coding things in real time. Yesterday, Ryan Bigg released a video of him implementing Conways Game of Life from scratch by reading through the rul...
This week brings us a new JRuby release, some Ruby 2.0 news (but you knew that already, right? ;-)) and a new BDD library that seems to have struck a chord with the people Im following on Twitter. Al...
Today, Yusuke Endoh posted to the ruby-core mailing list noting that matz has admitted him as a Ruby 2.0 "release manager" and as part of his work, he has come up with a tentative schedule fo...
Yesterday, Matz made a commit to the MRI Ruby repository bumping the trunk version from 1.9.4 to 2.0.0, marking the start of the work of implementing the long-discussed ideas for Ruby 2.0. What is Ru...
In Rubyists Already Use Monadic Patterns, Dave Fayram made a passing reference to using ||= to set a variables value if its value were Nothing (false or nil in Ruby). The resulting Reddit quickly pic...
Back in 2008 and 2009, Ruby Inside had a long line of "Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts" posts, aimed at sharing a collection of news and libraries in one hit. In the l...
Ruby Inside wouldnt be what it is without you but its time for me to thank the companies who also help to keep Ruby Inside going by sponsoring my work. Thanks! I take care not to accept sponsors who ...
On August 1, 2011, Ruby 1.9.3 preview 1 was released. The final version isnt yet out (as of September 23) but Ruby 1.9.3 is going to be the next, full production-level release of MRI Ruby. But whats ...
In a presentation about Ruby 1.9.3, Yuki Sonoda notes that Ruby 1.8 has "no future" and its "end of life" is being discussed pretty seriously. Ruby 1.8 is becoming history, but whats ...
Despite RSpecs awesomeness, Test::Unit remains the most popular Ruby testing tool out there outside of Rails apps. Ive recently been code walking through a lot of Ruby libraries for my Ruby Reloaded ...
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