Ruby on Rails

Why is Ruby on Rails so slow?

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 … Continue reading »

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Ruby on Rails now with NetBeans

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 … Continue reading »

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Microsoft ends Ruby.NET project

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 … Continue reading »

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