Category: Ruby

Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP

Eric Kidd has an interesting post entitled "Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP". As it turns out, Ruby compares well as a functional language, and it fakes macros better than Iâ€™d thought.... Now, given a choice between a...

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Screencast presentation comparing J2EE, RoR, Zope, TurboGears, and Django

Interesting presentation that compares how these frameworks fare against each other for very simple web apps. Video and discussion at Joel on Software

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Multiple dispatch in Ruby

I've been reading recently about Common Lisp and CLOS and I've been intrigued by their radically different approach to OO and some of their interesting features, one of which is multiple dispatch. Most mainstream OO languages...

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The future of Ruby

Slides from a presentation from Ruby creator "Matz" about future enhancements in Ruby2 and Rite. Why Ruby Sucks: A presentation by Matz

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Ruby on Rails video

This short movie shows how easy it is to setup a new Ruby on Rails application: Ruby on Rails video Books on Ruby on Rails from Amazon.com...

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Setting up Ruby on Rails to work with Apache and FastCGI

Up until today, I had only been running Ruby on Rails apps inside the built-in WEBrick web server, which is really slow. Today, I set up my Rails apps to work with Apache. If you just run them as CGIs inside Apache, this is also...

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Getting your feet wet with Ruby on Rails

This article doesn't teach you a lot about Ruby or Rails, but the nice part about it is that it shows you how easy it is to build web apps with Rails. I went through his tutorial last night and looked at my watch before and...