This should be a great Christmas present for many of you. After over three years, the “ruby-debug” gem finally installs properly on JRuby. ~/projects/jruby gem install ruby-debug Successfully ...

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After my previous two posts, several folks asked if it’s possible to do all this stuff from Ruby, rather than using Java or C-based apps shipped with the JVM. The answer is yes! Because of the ...

CodeGear announced last week that it has released a new 1.1 version of 3rdRail, a Ruby on Rails integrated development environment that plugs into Eclipse. In addition, the company, Borland's former ...

The increasing popularity of dynamic languages has given rise to a growing arsenal of development tools tailored to developers using languages like Ruby, PHP, and Python. So widespread is the array of ...

This is made possible by Ruby’s reliance on defining very basic operations in libraries. When MIT researchers rewrote those libraries, the operations contained in those collections were forced to ...

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The Ruby on Rails site bills its eponymous project as “Web development that doesn’t hurt.” I’m not really sure what that means, but it certainly sounds good. Further down on the page, it says, “Rails ...