The Rubyist: May 2009 Edition

Ruby – I was really excited to play with _Why’s latest project, Bloopsaphone. Bloopsaphone allows you to program 8-bit sounds…

Early 8-bit Sounds from _why’s Bloopsaphone
What It’s Like Being A Ruby Rock Star
The Ruby Toolbox
Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost
Engine Yard Has Taken Over Ruby 1.8.6 Maintenance
Ruby Alltop
Regular expression Ruby
Ruby Polyglot: Talking with Erlang
Ruby Currying
Rubystein: Ruby meets Wolfenstein
Java kicks Ruby in the what now?
Macruby Support in any Cocoa Application

JRuby – There are still a lot of news and tutorials regarding deploying JRuby on Rails in Google App Engine for Java.

Ruby on Rails on Google App Engine
JBoss Rails Becomes TorqueBox
BiteScript 0.0.2 Scripting Examples
The future of Rails is Ruby 1.9 – real performance of 1.8, JRuby and 1.9 compared
VisualVM: JRuby and the Ruby to JVM Spectrum
JRuby on Rails, PDF generation and Flying Saucers

Ruby on Rails – This month saw a lot of good articles regarding Ruby on Rails… I particularly enjoyed reading ‘A Django Developer’s Views on Rails.’

Being a Better Rails Developer
Speeding up a Rails request by 150ms by changing 1 line
Rails Alternatives: Merb, Sinatra & Ramaze
A Django Developer’s Views on Rails
Create RoR model diagrams with yUMLmeRails
5 Tips to Scale Your Ruby on Rails Application
Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
RailsBridge
Rails 3 Gets Supersized With Merb
Four Ways Ruby on Rails Can Help You
Ruby on Rails Security Project

RailsConf 2009 -There can’t be a Rails conference without some sort of argument or debate spilling over to the blogosphere. This year is no different but fortunately the biggest issue was the mass walk out of the Keynote speech.