06 Jan 2007

JRuby w/ Full Rails Support in February... Of 2007? —

Charles Nutter on the possibility of a Rails support announcement in February 2007.

tomayko.com   18:16

29 Dec 2006

The Pending Ruby/Java Co-op —

A prediction piece on the possibility of a Ruby backed coup d'état on the JVM and what that might mean to the pragmatic web developer.

tomayko.com   17:56

24 Sep 2007

Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI: Rubinius is important —

“I’m getting more and more convinced that for the people that don’t need the things Java infrastructure can give you, Rubinius is the most important project around, in Ruby-land. More than that, Rubinius is MRI done right.”

ola-bini.blogspot.com   03:29

22 Sep 2007

Sun’s Ruby strategy - Engage and Contain? —

“Maybe I’ll start to believe when they start promoting Ruby on Rails at JavaOne, as opposed to promoting JRuby on Rails at RailsConf.”

logiccolony.com   03:02

19 Sep 2007

Sun surprises at RailsConf Europe 2007 [loudthinking.com] —

“‘Why are they doing all this?’, that’s a common concern with most Ruby folks … A Sun that’s heavily involved with Rails on the software side is a Sun that’s much better positioned to sell loads of hardware …”

loudthinking.com   18:47

03 Sep 2007

Java Native Access + JRuby = True POSIX [headius.blogspot.com] —

Java becomes 100% more viable. So simple — why didn’t someone do this in the very beginning?

headius.blogspot.com   06:23

10 Jun 2007

JRuby 1.0 Released! [headius.blogspot.com] —

Rock on.

headius.blogspot.com   12:46

14 May 2007

Charles Nutter - Big Plans [headius.blogspot.com] —

“And yes, I’ve seen the Microsoft news … If Sun did something like this I’d resign.”

headius.blogspot.com   10:35

16 Apr 2007

Running Ruby in the browser via script type="text/ruby" —

I no longer think applet support should be dropped from all major browsers. I’ve got links for anyone who produces a Jython version.

almaer.com   04:56

09 Mar 2007

XRuby Already Faster Than Ruby 1.8.5? —

“… the results for YARV/Rite are still streets ahead in terms of raw performance, and where I’m placing my bets for the next de facto Ruby interpreter.”

rubyinside.com   06:03

31 Jan 2007

The End is Nigh: Help Squash Rails Bugs —

The JRuby guys are real close to 100% passing Rails' unit tests. I think I’m going to sign up for PostgreSQL testing/hacking. What are you doing?

headius.blogspot.com   10:49

28 Nov 2006

Ruby for the Web! (irb running in an applet via JRuby) —

I take back everything bad I’ve ever said about Java Applets ;)

headius.com   08:44