Ruby News & Articles

Hot on the heels of other recent platform-as-a-service launches, VMware (news, site) has announced its own PaaS offering, called Cloud Foundry. The open-source cloud platform aims to give developers the means to create applications on public, private and private clouds without having to worry about the underlying architecture.

Two technologies that many sites and services rely on these days are web applications and search. Those relying heavily on web apps plus Apache Lucene (news, site) and Apache Solr (news, site) now have a new tool available to help them track down and identify performance problems within their sites, thanks to a company called New Relic.

News moves so fast on the social media field, everyone needs a hand keeping up. Except for us of course, because we are like so on the ball. Yeah…ahem…right.

On that note here are the top social media stories from the past few days, distilled into a minute’s worth of scanning.

The latest and greatest version of the open source web development framework - Ruby on Rails - is now available. Version 2.0 is a web framework that supports the use of REST-ful web services and says bye bye to SOAP.

The Ruby Conference concluded Sunday with Ezra Zygmuntowicz’s talk on Mongrel — entitled Building Custom Mongrel Handlers for Speed and Concurrency — and a discussion on Rubinius by Evan Phoenix.

To highlight the merits of their offerings they note a few philosophical issues with Ruby and Rails, respectively.

In case you haven’t heard, JRuby is an all-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. And here at the Ruby-fest in San Jose Nick Sieger of the JRuby core team educates us on the current apple of his eye: JRuby: Ruby on the JVM. He starts by asking, “What can Java do for Ruby?”

While our host waxes poetic about dinosaurs, I’m going to take an opportunity to update you on all the good that’s gone down this morning.

Sun Microsystems senior staff engineer Tor Norbye kicked us off this morning with Ruby Tooling: State of the Art. For those expecting the him to get dangerously gung-ho about Ruby’s merits (Sun is, after all, getting quite intimate with jRuby), we (yeah, we) were mildly disappointed.

This weekend marks the second annual Ruby conference, hosted by SDForum. Leaping on a unique opportunity to “drink from a ruby-colored firehose,” we got down here at 9 AM yesterday morning and prepared for code overload.

I feel like I’ve been dropped into a live-action Anandtech forum.

Into Ruby? Clear your weekend schedule and make a pilgrimage to San Jose, CA, the heart of Silicon Valley. Here at Mecca you will find the SDForum, the Valley’s geektacular info-source in the tech community.

With Sun GPLv2’ing its Java software this week, a lot of focus is on the other open frameworks that have risen during the same era, and their comparative value in a post open source Java world. One such take is from well-known Sun insider, Tim Bray, who spoke at last week’s International PHP Conference in Germany.