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JRuby 1.1.1, Rails 2.0.2, Warbler now in GlassFish v2 Update Center

arungupta — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:30:13 -0400

Vivek updated JRuby module in GlassFish v2 UR2 Update Center. It now contains JRuby 1.1.1 + Rails 2.0.2 and Warbler (instead of Goldspike) for packaging the app.

Alternative Ruby Implementations

sandbox — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:16:59 -0400

Charles Nutter in his blog entry -- Promise and Perils for Alternative Ruby Impls -- makes a fairly detailed analysis of the state of alternative Ruby implementations. He talks not just about JRuby but about all the others as well. The comparison despite all existing biases seems fairly neutral.A few interesting (according to me) things in that blog post are:

TOTD #32: Rails Deployment on GlassFish v3 from NetBeans IDE

arungupta — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:45:39 -0400

Glenn Vanderburg: diggin' Ruby

aalmiray — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:22:18 -0400

Glenn Vanderburg, a well known speaker in the NFJS symposium tours, has been in the IT business for more than 20 years, with plenty of experience with several programming languages, also an early adopter of Ruby east side of the Pacific. Continue reading to learn about Glenn's point of view on Ruby, JRuby and Java. Enjoy!

Mofo - Getting Started w/ Microformats using Ruby - Web 3.0 In Action

geraldbauer2007 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:33:03 -0400

What are Microformats? Microformats let you turn your web page into a web service

Drag & Drop with Rails

brianleonard — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:15:51 -0400

The ability to drag and drop has been a staple of desktop applications for years.

Autovalidation with Rails

brianleonard — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:06:53 -0400

I love it when a web application gives me instant feedback on the validity of my entry.

Rails and Java EE integration - Native Rails on GlassFish v3

arungupta — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:20:44 -0400

The last part of this tri-series blog (Part 1, Part 2) will show how a Rails application can be deployed on GlassFish - without the need of Goldspike, Warbler or any other gem or plugin. Yes, that's a native Rails app deployment on GlassFish v3.

Top 10 Code Editors for Web Developers!

sikanrong — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:11:14 -0400

I love talking about IDEs and code editors. This has to be the damn touchiest nerd subject of all-time.

Rails and Java EE integration - Warbler instead of Goldspike

arungupta — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:52:58 -0400

Future of Architecture: The Template

sdevijver — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:40:51 -0400

I remember like it was yesterday the day I was sitting at my desk back in 2005, watching the now famous Ruby on Rails screencast on how to create a blog in 15 minutes. It became the first screencast hit as far as I can tell. Three years later and after a lot of personal reflection I've boiled Rails' success down to two reasons:

Rails and Java EE integration - Servlet co-bundled and invoked from Rails

arungupta — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:07:10 -0400

One of the several advantages of deploying Rails applications on GlassFish is - co-hosting Rails and Java EE applications in the same container. The screencast #web9 shows how Rails applications can be easily deployed on GlassFish.

Merb on JRuby 1.1 RC3

arungupta — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:55:15 -0400

This blog provides how you can get started with Merb on JRuby 1.1 RC3.

Ruby Developer Center @ Sun Developer Network - New Webpage

arungupta — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:07:54 -0400

Rails powered by the GlassFish Application Server - New Article

arungupta — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:58:29 -0400

Do you know there are several advantags of deploying Ruby-on-Rails applications on GlassFish instead of traditional Apache/Mongrel ?

GlassFish v3 gem 0.1.2 released

arungupta — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:26:09 -0400

Pramod announced the release of GlassFish v3 Gem ver 0.1.2. The focus of this release is bugfixes:

jMaki on Rails - Reloaded for NetBeans 6.1 beta & Rails 2.0

arungupta — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:48:37 -0400

BitNami's JRubyStack = JRuby + Rails + GlassFish Gem + MySQL all bundled together

arungupta — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:03:01 -0400

BitNami provides easy-to-use, integrated and multiplatform install bundles for different open source apps. They released JRubyStack last week which includes JRuby 1.1 RC2, Rails 2.0.2, GlassFish v3 Gem 0.1.1,

Farewell to the 'J' in 'JVM'?

geertjan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:58:01 -0500

CMS Watch discusses Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at the SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference earlier this month, stating: "I think what you'll see from Sun," Schwartz remarked, "is that we're just going to take the 'J' off the 'JVM' and just make it a 'VM'." What does that mean? Here several of the DZone leaders share their views, from...

Slide Show (S9) Gem v0.2: a Ruby Alternative to PowerPoint

geraldbauer2007 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:28:35 -0500

Slide Show (S9) is a Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read. The Slide Show project also collects and offers slide show themes.

Groovy (and Ruby) Only Solves Half the Problem

mats.henricson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:59:42 -0500

It is with some dismay I've been reading the latest Groovy discussions on Javalobby. I've spent quite some time learning Scala, so it bothered me a bit that I minded another competing language a spot in the limelight. Why would I care? To me as a consultant, language fragmentation is great.

Getting Started with Rails 2.0 Scaffold

arungupta — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:10:08 -0500

Rails 2.0 changes the way Scaffold works. This blog walks you through the steps to create a simple CRUD application using Scaffold in Rails 2.0. Download & Install JRuby 1.1 RC2. Install Rails using the following command: jruby -S gem install rails Create a new Rails app using the following command:

GlassFish v3 gem on JRuby 1.1 RC2

arungupta — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:28:10 -0500

JRuby 1.1 RC2 was released earlier today an GlassFish v3 gem works like a charm on it :)

Interview with James Turnbull

pate — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:19:21 -0500

Recently, I’ve been reading about Puppet because of James Turnbull’s excellent Pulling Strings with Puppet

Where are you hoping to go to learn more about Ruby/Rails and get involved in the community

pate — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:20:02 -0500

What's the best way to get out into the Ruby world, meet other hackers, and learn more about Ruby? Rate these options in the order you're most interested in them.