Tim Bray, the co-creator of XML turned Ruby on Rails enthusiast, has told developers to face up to lingering performance problems in the scripting stack.
In a keynote at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference last week, Bray called Rails “a big deal, a hot deal”. And the Sun Microsystems director of web technologies is walking it […]
13 February 2008 – 12:46 PM
Having limped along in the wake of Eclipse, Sun Microsystems’ NetBeans is getting its second wind . One thing that’s helping is a fresh focus on scripting, particularly around Ruby on Rails.
In this piece, I shall show how well Ruby on Rails has been integrated into NetBeans using the creation of a very simple application […]
6 February 2008 – 11:06 AM
A community driven project for Ruby source code to run natively on Microsoft’s .NET framework has shut down, faced by progress from an official Microsoft effort.
Rather than repeat the work on Microsoft’s own IronRuby, Ruby.NET is closing its doors just three months after its latest milestone release, and following an initial wave of developer buzz,.
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17 January 2008 – 1:30 PM
The launch of a low-cost Ruby on Rails integrated development environment from SapphireSteel Software based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio comes at a turning point for both the Ruby language and its associated Rails framework. But quite what the turning point will be is open to question.
On the one hand Sun’s director of web technologies Tim […]
14 December 2007 – 6:07 PM
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 […]
13 December 2007 – 3:18 PM
Introducing Rails
The first thing to understand about Rails is its model/view/controller (MVC) architecture. While this approach is not unique to Rails — or even to Web applications as opposed to other programs — Rails provides a very clear and focused MVC way of thinking. If you stray from the MVC approach, Rails becomes far less […]
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