http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/ The O'Reilly Ruby group weblog covers all the latest in the world of the Ruby programming language with some of the languages leading programmers. From personalities, articles, developments, books, conferences, and exciting applications, O'Reilly Ruby is the site you'll want to watch to be ahead of the Ruby curve. en Copyright 2008 Sun, 11 May 2008 21:13:47 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.21 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss One of the rather unique features of the Fortress1 programming language is that it has builtin support for Unicode operators. For example, instead of using "==" you would use U+2261. After reading the spec, and a recent thread on ruby-core,... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/05/is_qwerty_harming_language_des.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/05/is_qwerty_harming_language_des.html Opinion 2008-05-11T21:13:47-08:00 Daniel Berger Back in March, I announced the Ruby Mendicant project after several readers of this blog encouraged me to pursue the idea. For those who didn't see the follow up details elsewhere, here's the readers digest version: Thanks to 70 donors,... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/05/ruby_mendicant_hadean_prawn.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/05/ruby_mendicant_hadean_prawn.html Technical 2008-05-03T10:34:05-08:00 Gregory Brown While working on Prawn, I ran into this (not-so) fun little gotcha: >> 1.to_sym => nil >> 101241.to_sym => nil Anyone cool enough to tell me what this feature is all about? Update: I guess it isn't totally clear what... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/a_ruby_wtf.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/a_ruby_wtf.html Technical 2008-04-28T08:54:45-08:00 Gregory Brown Sorry, it isn't entirely Ruby related... it is Python Django to be specific, but it is a message aimed at you ("the wiki-worker types") from Lawrence Lessig recruiting people to tag members of Congress at Change-Congress.org: Today we're launching the... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/help_lessig_tag_congress_1.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/help_lessig_tag_congress_1.html News 2008-04-27T07:39:37-08:00 Tim O'Brien I'm sure you don't believe it, doesn't seem like NetBeans is going to take the Ruby developer world by storm, but Sun seems to be pouring money into Ruby support. I'm skeptical that the Ruby community is going to embrace... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/surprising_contender_netbeans_1.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/surprising_contender_netbeans_1.html News 2008-04-26T17:35:33-08:00 Tim O'Brien The long-awaited mod_rails for apache was released yesterday by Phusion, a Netherlands based IT company. As many of you have already done, I hopped on board to see how it worked and was amazed on how easy it was to... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/mod_rails_for_apache_is_now_a.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/mod_rails_for_apache_is_now_a.html Reviews 2008-04-12T17:30:22-08:00 Eric Berry Reposting from the official announcement on RubyTalk Gobi version 1.0.0 has been released! * http://gobi.stonecode.org * http://metametta.blogspot.com * gregory.t.brown@gmail.com I am happy to announce the first release of my new fork of Ruby called Gobi. The goal of Gobi is... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/gobi_a_ruby_implementation_for.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/04/gobi_a_ruby_implementation_for.html Technical 2008-04-01T15:00:27-08:00 Gregory Brown CruiseControl.rb, by ThoughtWorks, is an elegant Continuous Integration dashboard for Ruby projects. This article shows how to call the RoR command "rake stats" once per build, capture the results, and chart them to track trends over time. http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/cruisecontrol_charts.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/cruisecontrol_charts.html 2008-03-18T08:14:15-08:00 Phlip Though I'm typing this from a Mac right now, I'm hardly a fan boy. I spend a little less than half of my time on OS X, the rest spent on cheap PC hardware and ArchLinux, and honestly, I'm happy... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/laurent_is_a_champ_1.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/laurent_is_a_champ_1.html Opinion 2008-03-14T11:31:58-08:00 Gregory Brown When I wrote the post I'd love to quit my job! (sort of), I was mainly aiming to start a conversation. Still, enough people took me seriously, and now I can announce that the project is officially under way. I'm... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/the_ruby_mendicant_project.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/the_ruby_mendicant_project.html 2008-03-11T09:37:53-08:00 Gregory Brown This project upgrades an online forum to add a search engine, using Test Driven Development. Our tools are RoR's Beast, Sphinx, and assert{ 2.0 }. http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/beast_acts_as_sphinx.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/beast_acts_as_sphinx.html Technical 2008-03-03T20:06:22-08:00 Phlip UPDATE: Okay kids, now it's 50% fantasy. It's up to you to cover the other 50% by donating and spreading the word, after reading my proposal. Here's hoping for the best! UPDATE: Though my original post was 95% a fantasy,... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/id_love_to_quit_my_job_sort_of.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/id_love_to_quit_my_job_sort_of.html Opinion 2008-03-03T09:31:50-08:00 Gregory Brown The Problem I find Ruby's current warning system, if you can call it that, lacking. Warnings are controlled by the -W flag on the command line, and are generated via the Kernel#warn method within code. There are a host of... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/structured_warnings_now.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/structured_warnings_now.html Opinion 2008-02-20T18:54:49-08:00 Daniel Berger Interesting: I asked a question on Phlip's last post about whether assert { 2.0 } was really necessary, given that it's mostly just assert_block from Test::Unit. I noticed this question disappeared from the post, because I guess it was offensive... http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/do_not_question_assert_20.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/do_not_question_assert_20.html Opinion 2008-02-14T13:52:19-08:00 Gregory Brown This is a problem in all of unit testing - the cobbler's own children always get the worst shoes! Our platform knows everything we know about assert x == 42, but it can't tell us everything for one reason: Languages optimize for the needs of production code, not test code. So our customers will always get better tools than we get! Ruby supplies just enough reflection for an assertion to reconstruct a block of code. http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/assert2.html http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/assert2.html Technical 2008-02-11T19:23:53-08:00 Phlip