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“This is not a death knell - quite the opposite. It's the start of a new era, a higher level of success and widespread adoption for the language and its ecosystem. In a few years, Ruby will be the status source...

“It used to be somewhat inconvenient to deal with UTF-8 in Rails because Ruby's primary method of dealing with them was through regular expressions. If you just did a naïve string operation, you'd often be surprised by results and think source...

“In yesterday’s address to the Ruby community, Dave Thomas invited Rubyists to fork Ruby, to freely research and experiment with new and interesting features. If this process is successful, many of these features will inevitably see their way back into source...

“ I've had several conversations recently where it's become clear to me that some people view dynamic languages like Python and Ruby as just Java without the compile step. Yes, one of the advantages of a dynamic language is the more...

“ The all-new Red is a Ruby-to-JavaScript transliterator backed by a custom ruby.js library designed to let your code run in the browser exactly* the way Ruby would run on your machine. The JavaScript output is optimized to contain only source...

“Well, DHH seems to be caught in a lie in his latest blog post on Rails myths so I feel I should correct it. An outright lie that Mongrel caused his 400 restarts/day problem. However, David must have forgotten that source...

“Ruby 1.8.6 (which still seems the dominant version among both Linux binary packages and the Windows One-Click Installer) uses a hard-coded 1K buffer size for HTTP reads, which leads to a ton of CPU usage during large HTTP downloads, even source...

“This is exactly the psychology that goes through the head of everybody who hears about Lisp and decides to check it out. Summary: Lisp is awesome, except for the multitude of trivially annoying things that make it much less so, source...

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“I recently posted about a set of programmer personality traits that I’d noticed. At first I thought they were relatively rare, but it seems to me much more prevalent than I’d thought– even the widely read Ruby blogger “raganwald” seemed source...

“desc "Generate the gradient background" task :gradient do require 'rmagick' include Magick WIDTH = 1 HEIGHT = 154 gradient = GradientFill.new(0, 0, WIDTH, 0, "#84704E", "#99906E") image = Image.new(WIDTH, HEIGHT, gradient) image.write("images/gradient.jpg") end ” source... source...

“The thought that entered my head and has not left is this: if Ruby can run on top of the Java Virtual Machine and take advantage of all the power of that environment while still being an expressive and efficient source...

“I got another email about how to make the switch from Java to Ruby work. I’m lazy and I like recycling advice, hence this entry.”

“That’s a nice one! Wonder if I should use Ruby, Python, or maybe even Perl to build it? As gearheads we tend to jump to the technical details with little afterthought, but should you even be building that feature in more...

“Depending on your data model and your application, sharding data into tables by some nat..." dc:creator="aaron" dc:date="August 16, 2008 21:06" /> --> MRI Ruby + MySQL + Threads == Stop the world... JRuby doesn't Posted by aaron on Saturday, August source...