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Nice Ruby on Rails Tutorial List

I found out about a really good list of Ruby and Ruby on Rails tutorials for those just starting out or looking to brush up on their Ruby from eConsultant: Helpful Ruby on Rails tutorials. AJAX powered chat in 3 hours on Ruby on Rails : Tutorial on creating simple Web chatroom Ajax on Rails : at ONLamp Beginner’s Guide to Rails, part 1 : series of tutorials at GodBit Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger : at Hivelogic Create a To Do List with Ruby on Rails - Beginner’s Tutorial : at...

Aptana RadRails, An IDE for Rails Development, interview up on InfoQ

I had been working on an interview with Javier Ramirez, author of Aptana RadRails, An IDE for Rails Development . It was a good interview as Javier really knows his Aptana RadRails . It was eye-opening for me because I had not looked at the Aptana RadRails development environment in a long time and it has come a long way since becoming part of Aptana. It is worth checking out for sure. The book itself is a good read and a good introduction to the IDE itself. If just starting...

Installing Ruby 1.8.6 on Ubuntu 8.10

I recently installed the latest release of Ubuntu , 8.10. I wanted to setup my Dell Mini to do some on-the-road Ruby development so I tried: $ sudo apt-get install ruby Only to find out the Ruby default for Ubuntu 8.10 is Ruby 1.8.7 which is known to have some compatibility problems with pre-Rails 2.2.2 and other Ruby gems and plugins. After removing Ruby 1.8.7 I set out to figure out the best way to get my old friend Ruby 1.8.6 up and running. It’s about the source It turns out we can pretty...

Great Professional Ruby Conference Coverage

I was supposed to be in Boston this week at the Voices that Matter Professional Ruby Conference , but due to client obligations it looks like I will not be there but I have found some great coverage from Nick Quaranto of the Litany Against Fear blog. Nick’s Professional Ruby Conference Notes list each day’s events and details of each speaker. Here are links to his notes just from Tuesday: Tuesday 1. Keynote, from Obie Fernandez. 2. Riding Rails at The New York Times, from Ben Koski. 3. JRuby...

Having Trouble Updating to Latest RubyGems on the Mac? Try This.

I wanted to install the official release of Merb 1.0 but found I needed to have RubyGems 1.3 installed to do so, no big deal right? Well, on my MacBook Pro running 10.5, I found running the usual command to update RubyGems: $ sudo gem update --system Gave me the following: Updating RubyGems Updating rubygems-update Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.0 ERROR: While executing gem ... (NameError) undefined local variable or method `remote_gemspecs' for # $ gem --version 1.2.0 Thinking I had...

My RubyFringe Interview with John Lam on InfoQ

I attended RubyFringe this year in Toronto and had the chance to interview a few people, one being John Lam of Microsoft, to talk about IronRuby, Microsoft and Open Source and the general direction of the project. Summary of Talk: In this interview from RubyFringe, John Lam talks about his work on IronRuby and how Microsoft is approaching Open Source software development. You can find the interview on the InfoQ web site and is about 1/2 hour in length. Technorati Tags: RubyFringe , InfoQ , IronRuby...

Acts As Conference 2009 Dates and Venue Announced

The second annual Acts As Conference 2009 , a regional Ruby conference, dates and venue has been announced. The event will take place February 6 & 7, 2009 in Orlando Florida at the Ramada Orlando Celebration Resort & Convention Center , located near all things Disney. One of the best parts about the event is the cost…only $125. The venue is different than last year and has the capacity for 175 attendees. The line-up of talks will include lightening talks as well as more...

One of My Co-Authors on the ALT.NET Podcast

Just a quick note, one of people I am writing the Professional IronRuby book with, Aaron Junod , was on the ALT.NET Podcast recently talking about The State of IronRuby . Aaron and Michael Letterle talk with Mike Moore about: Why Ruby? Dynamic Typing How Ruby has affected the industry Microsoft accepting community contributions What about running IronRuby on Rails? What about running IronRuby on the ASP.NET MVC? Sneaking Ruby into the enterprise with IronRuby IronRuby’s readiness Ruby Programming...

First RubyFringe Video up on InfoQ

It has been a while since RubyFringe , but the first of the session videos are up on InfoQ . The one is with our good friend Obie Fernandez titled "Do the Hustle", which basically talks about the business-side of Ruby and Rails development. The summary of the session states: Obie Fernandez will leverage his experience successfully selling consulting services for both Thoughtworks and Hashrocket to help you with the following questions: How do I figure out how to price my services? How do...

IronNails = IronRuby + Silverlight

UPDATE: I had the chance to talk with Ivan about IronNails. Please read the interview over on InfoQ . As we see IronRuby make progress within Microsoft, we are also seeing new projects pop-up as well. One such project I have noticed and wanted to share is IronNails , created and opensourced by Ivan Porto Carrero . IronNails brings IronRuby and Silverlight together implementing an MVC pattern, much like Ruby on Rails . IronNails ========= IronNails is a framework inspired by the Rails and rucola frameworks...

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