The Rubyist: June Edition
Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of June. The month of June saw a lot of articles, interviews, and video from RailsConf 2008. The big excitement from RailsConf was news of MagLev, a ruby implementation built on top of a Smalltalk VM. Other big news items to in the Ruby sphere was several security concerns. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog.
Scaling and Security
- Fear and Loathing at RailsConf
- My Mixed Feelings about Ruby
- Rails 10x more productive, Scala 2x. Really?
- Rails can’t scale alone
- Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby
- Multiple Ruby security vulnerabilities
- The Big Ruby Vulnerabilities
- Did Rails Sink Twitter?
RailsConf and RubyConf
- Enlightenments from RailsConf 2008
- The Mega RailsConf 2008 Round Up
- 37signals RailsConf 2008 Interviews
- RailsConf 2008 – Saturday Evening Summary
- RailsConf 2008 – Friday Evening Summary
- MagLev
- MagLev – Ruby that scales
- MountainWest RubyConf 2008
News and Announcements
- The Rails Documentation App
- Acts As Community – Rubyist Unite
- New Free Book: Ruby on Rails 2.1
- Google's OpenSocial with Ruby on Rails
- Ruby TMTOWTDI, Episode 1
- De-smalling the Built-in Shoes Manual
Tools and Tutorials
- Bulk insertion of data with ActiveRecord
- Rails – Simple Asynchronous Processing
- Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails
- Glimmer – Using Ruby to Build SWT User Interfaces
- DataMapper – Ruby Object Relational Mapper
- Building a Ruby on Rails application in a week
- Setting up a Rails 2.0 Project without a Database
- PoolParty! An Open Source tool for managing EC2 clusters
- Pool Party Gem For EC2 Computing
Opinion
- Java developers should learn Ruby
- 10 must-have Rails plugins
- The evolution of a Ruby programmer
- Coding in java after a two year affair with ruby
- Johnson – Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace.
- Creating a new rails app shouldn't be boring
Jobs
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