I will be heading up to Toronto for the RubyFringe event at the Metropolitan , July 18-20. I will be at the event representing InfoQ and doing some interviews of some of the speakers. If any speaker sees this and is interested in being interviewed please contact me at rbazinet at gmail.com. We can talk...
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I was supposed to be at RailsConf this year covering the event for InfoQ , but I am not there. Sometimes higher priorities overtake the things we would like to do and well, I am home. One of the announcements I thought might be coming at the event was the release of Ruby on Rails 2.1 and sure enough...
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John Lam announced on his blog that the IronRuby team has successfully processed some simple requests with an unmodified copy of Rails. The plan is to show off this achievement at RailsConf this week . Congratulations to the team for many accomplishments in a short amount of time: We started our work...
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I think just about everyone in the software development community at least knows what Ruby on Rails is, so I won't do into it here. There is some real exciting things going on in the Ruby community and in particular, Ruby on Rails running on more than one implementation of Ruby. Rails has been running...
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Curious about Microsoft's IronRuby implementation ? Try it out in your browser. Technorati Tags: Microsoft , IronRuby...
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I have been developing Ruby applications for the past couple years, not as my only work but part of my overall work. The IronRuby project is a large part of my work as well, not as a committer, but from a consumer standpoint. I am looking forward to the day where we can run Ruby on Rails on IronRuby...
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I have been a happy Ruby in Steel user for quite a while now and have built a bit of a rapport with Huw Collingbourne, co-founder of SapphireSteel Software , the developers of Ruby in Steel. On Monday, SapphireSteel Software released a new version of Ruby in Steel, version 1.2 . This version includes...
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Ruby on Rails has been around for a few years now and has become a hugely popular web development framework, but not on Windows and Internet Information Server (IIS). Rails has run on Linux and Max OSX almost exclusively, until recently. The Ruby on Rails Wiki has a very good article on setting up Ruby...
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The inaugural meeting of the Hartford Ruby Brigade is coming March 24, 2008 at the East Hartford Library. Speaker Dan Bernier ( http://invisibleblocks.wordpress.com/ ) talking about the Ruby Facets gem. Raffle We will be holding a raffle for a book from our generous sponsor Addison-Wesley. This will...
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Aaron Junod , my co-author of Professional IronRuby I talked about already , did a great interview with John Lam at the recent MIX conference in Las Vegas. Aaron asked some great questions and as always John answered them very openly giving all those IronRuby enthusiasts something to look forward to...
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