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The Mega April 2012 Ruby and Rails News Roundup

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By Peter Cooper / April 27, 2012

Welcome to April 2012′s bumper pick’n'mix of Ruby and Rails news and releases, fresh from the pages of Ruby Weekly.

Highlights include: Matz’s new Ruby implementation, MobiRuby (Ruby for iOS), Passenger 3.0.12, Ruby 1.9.3-p194, TorqueBox 2.0, Adhearsion 2.0, and Dr Nic’s App Scrolls.

Headlines

Ruby 1.9.3-p194 Released
A small version bump for Ruby 1.9.3 which includes a security fix for RubyGems (and therefore an updated version) along with oodles of minor tweaks and fixes.

MRuby: A Lightweight Ruby Implementation by Matz
It’s been in the making for a while (remember RiteVM?) but this week Matz’s new ‘lightweight’ Ruby implementation, mruby, spread around the Rubysphere like wildfire. Read More

The Mega March 2012 Ruby and Rails News and Release Roundup

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By Peter Cooper / April 12, 2012

And again, a mixture of travel, illness, and exhaustion have prevented me from my weekly updates on here (although Ruby Weekly is still going out on a weekly basis!) so here’s a bumper update for all of the top Ruby and Rails news from March 2012.

Highlights include: Matz wins a prize, Ruby is approved by the ISO, some awesome jobs, Bundler 1.1, Vagrant 1.0, Rails 3.2.3, Avdi Grimm’s Object on Rails book, the Pragmatic Programmers release some more awesome books and, of course, a lot more.

Headlines

Matz Wins FSF’s 2011 Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Free Software Foundation president Richard M. Read More

The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for February 2012

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By Peter Cooper / March 2, 2012

Oops! I forgot to post the weekly Ruby news updates from Ruby Weekly to Ruby Inside in February so.. here’s a mega roundup of all that was new in the Ruby and Rails worlds in February 2012. I’ll try to keep posting every week from here on – sorry.

Highlights include: a new Ruby 1.9.3 release, REE’s end of life, Spree 1.0, some Rails 4 news, Devise 2.0, a new private gem hosting service.. and that’s just scratching the surface :-) Enjoy! (And don’t forget to subscribe to Ruby Weekly if you want to receive something like this every week via e-mail or The Ruby Show if you want it in podcast/audio form.)

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Ruby 1.9.3-p125 Released
Patchlevel 125 of Ruby 1.9.3 is the latest production release of MRI. Read More

This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk

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By Peter Cooper / January 28, 2012

It’s the latest Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has a ‘tips’ page where you can submit links for potential inclusion so if you’re releasing something or have written a cool post, fill out the form and you may be in Ruby Weekly next week :-)

Headlines

Rails 3.2 Released
DHH has unveiled Rails 3.2! Not quite as big a deal as 3.1 but has a faster development mode, faster route recognition, a tagged logger, and more. With Rails master now aiming at 4.0.0, it seems 3.2 may be the last version of Rails to support Ruby 1.8. Read More

This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more

By Peter Cooper / January 20, 2012

Welcome to this week’s Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, my Ruby e-mail newsletter.

Headlines

Vote for your ‘Ruby Hero’ in the Ruby Hero Awards
The Ruby Heroes awards run each year and present 6 community nominated ‘heroes’ with an award at RailsConf. Nominations are now open so go and drop your nomination for the Rubyist whose code has brightened up your life the most in the past year.

Heroku Receives InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year Award
Sorry it’s just a press release but it’s great to see a company that came up from the Ruby world continue to do well. Read More

The Last Week in Ruby: RSpec 2.8, Redcar 0.12, Torquebox 2.0 beta, articles and more

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By Peter Cooper / January 16, 2012

Welcome to this week’s Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the Ruby e-mail newsletter. While I have you, be sure to follow @RubyInside on Twitter as I’m going to be posting news more frequently there than on the Web site in future.


Also, if you’re interested in getting one interesting programming related quote or link each day on Twitter, check out @codewisdom.


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RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic
RSpec 2.8 and rspec-rails 2.8.1 have been released and some users have been reporting significant performance improvements. Other tweaks include improved documentation, better tag and filtering options, random example execution, and ‘rspec –init’ for adding RSpec to an empty Ruby project. Read More

RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic

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By Peter Cooper / January 7, 2012

RSpec 2.8 has been released, along with rspec-rails 2.8.1 for the full Rails 3.x integration experience.

RSpec is a BDD-focused testing tool that’s particularly popular in the Rails world where everyone except DHH is using it (if you believe the hoopla). RSpec has faced accusations of being less than speedy in the past, but it seems 2.8 has had a performance firework shoved up its tailpipe:

David Chelimsky, the creator of RSpec, also notes that in RSpec 2.8:

  • the documentation has been significantly improved
  • there’s improved support for tags and filtering
  • random example running order support (with user definable seed)
  • rspec –init will create a spec directory and some starter code on a blank project – ideal for Ruby library development!

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The Past 2 Weeks in the World of Ruby: 40 Links to Bring You Up to Speed (January 2012)

By Peter Cooper / January 6, 2012

Ruby Weekly has just tipped over 10,000 subscribers but I know not everyone is into getting their news via e-mail, so here’s the latest frequent roundup of the latest Ruby and Rails news for you, all on the Web :-)

Key News, Releases, and Headlines

Hungry Academy Application Process Closes This Weekend
LivingSocial’s ‘Hungry Academy’ will provide a paid, on-site 5 month Ruby and Rails learning experience and mentorship program to a small group of lucky applicants. Interested? You’ve only got a few days left to apply.

DOS Attack Vulnerability Found in Ruby 1.8′s Hash Algorithm
Ruby 1.8.7-p352 and earlier are affected by a wide reaching (as in Python and Java are also affected!) hash related vulnerability. Read More

9 Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2012

By Peter Cooper / January 2, 2012

jobs.pngRecently Forbes wrote about the rise of ‘developernomics’, noting that companies are seeing programmers as a ‘safe haven’ investment in otherwise troubled times. Maybe.. maybe not.. but the Ruby and Rails job market is as hot as ever, so if you’re looking for a new position, be sure to negotiate well! ;-)

To promote a job, see our Post A Job page. Your listing not only ends up on the Ruby Inside and RubyFlow sidebars but also in the 10114 subscriber Ruby Weekly for free (as a bonus) and on our 7305 follower @rubyinside Twitter account.

Senior Engineer – Edinburgh, United Kingdom

FreeAgent, the pioneers in web-based accounting, is looking for a senior engineer to join their engineering team in a brand new office in beautiful Edinburgh. Read More

Let’s Build a Simple Video Game with JRuby: A Tutorial

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By Peter Cooper / December 15, 2011

Ruby isn’t known for its game development chops despite having a handful of interesting libraries suited to it. Java, on the other hand, has a thriving and popular game development scene flooded with powerful libraries, tutorials and forums. Can we drag some of Java’s thunder kicking and screaming over to the world of Ruby? Yep! – thanks to JRuby. Let’s run through the steps to build a simple ‘bat and ball’ game now.

The Technologies We’ll Be Using

JRuby

If you’re part of the “meh, JRuby” brigade, suspend your disbelief for a minute. JRuby is easy to install, easy to use, and isn’t going to trample all over your system or suck up all your memory. Read More

A Lagom Review of O’Reilly’s ‘Sinatra Up and Running’

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By Peter Cooper / December 14, 2011

Sinatra Up and Running is a new book published by O’Reilly and written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Hasse that covers the popular Sinatra web application DSL in a brisk 103 pages, acting as a tutorial to newcomers and a handy reference for old hands.

TLDR: It’s a short, sweet, relatively cheap and very well written book about Sinatra. Recommended. Buy here.

An interesting quirk of Scandinavian society is the concept of Jante Law. It knocks down standing out and being individual, in favor of communal harmony. It’s typically used in a negative context to lament restrictions and lack of risk taking within Nordic society (DHH touched on this briefly in a recent Mixergy interview) but the flip side of the Jante coin is lagom: the idea and ideal of having just the right amount of something. Read More

Ludum Dare for Rubyists: An Online 48 Hour Game Coding Competition

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By Peter Cooper / December 13, 2011

Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It’s been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost recently due to the participation of Notch, the creator of the mind-bogglingly popular indie game Minecraft.

The next Ludum Dare contest is taking place this coming weekend between December 16-19, 2011 and I want to encourage Rubyists to take part. The competition tends to be dominated by Java, Flash, Microsoft XNA developers, and HTML5 developers, so it’d be great to see more Ruby entries (of which there have only been a couple so far). Read More

Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective

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By Peter Cooper / December 7, 2011

2011 is drawing to a close and I have been reminded of a post I made about a year ago: Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby. 2010 was a stunning year with the release of Ruby 1.9.2, MacRuby 0.5, Sinatra 1.0, Rubinius 1.0, and DataMapper 1.0!

This year, MagLev, Capybara, Cucumber, RefineryCMS, OmniAuth and TorqueBox all hit their 1.0 milestones, but I’ve dug through the archives to see what else 2011 brought for the Ruby scene.

January

Rails Installer: Ruby and Rails on Windows in a Single, Easy Install – Wayne E Seguin, of RVM, released a super simple Rails, Git, SQLite, and Ruby installer for Windows. Read More

This Week’s Ruby News: awesome_print 1.0, a new Sinatra book, and more

By Peter Cooper / December 3, 2011

Welcome to this week’s Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly – it’s bumper sized this week. And a big congratulations to David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, as he got married recently!

Headlines

Sinatra: Up and Running (New Book from O’Reilly)
A new book from O’Reilly, written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Hasse, that takes a look at the popular Sinatra Ruby webapp library. It’s available in e-book and print formats.

awesome_print 1.0 Released
OK, it’s already at 1.0.1, but Michael Dvorkin’s awesome ‘pretty printer’ for Ruby objects has reached its 1.0 milestone. This is definitely one of my favorite Ruby projects.

Articles and Tutorials

Method Chaining and Lazy Evaluation in Ruby
Ever wondered how that ActiveRecord query style method chaining works? Read More

Last Week’s Top Ruby News: Rails 3.1.3, autoload deprecated, and conferences

By Peter Cooper / November 29, 2011

It’s a couple of days late but here are the main headlines from the last week of Ruby news. We have a couple of Rails releases, some event news, and the usual gaggle of great articles and jobs.

Headlines

Rails 3.1.3 Released (Very Quickly After 3.1.2)
This release mainly contains fixes for regressions that popped up in 3.1.2, including a downgrade to Sprockets. 3.1.2 itself was primarily a bug and security fix release and cleared up a XSS vulnerability in the translate helper.

Rails 3.0.11 Released (clears up aforementioned security vuln too)

Matz says ‘Autoload will be dead’ (in Ruby 3.0)
Matz says he should have removed ‘autoload’ from Ruby when he added threads to the language but he has now deprecated them. Read More

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