Open Source Tools for Software Development Videos and Tutorials
JRuby has become popular for deploying Rails and other web frameworks, but it is also helping to expand the Ruby world beyond Rails. JRuby is everywhere, bringing Ruby to new users and new domains every day. In this session, we’ll show many other examples of JRuby, from mobile devices to …
Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu. Video producer
MongoDB is a document based database engine. Learn how to access it through MongoMapper in this episode. http://railscasts.com/episodes/194-mongodb-and-mongomapper
Rails 3 introduces a series of brand new features that will make your Rails applications better and your experience more pleasant. Yehuda Katz covers some of the most important improvements in Rails 3 and shows how you can take advantage of those improvements today. This post is a bit technically …
Kristina Chodorow, a software engineer at MongoDB, talks about non-relational data persistence in Java using MongoDB, a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. In the last couple years, dozens of non-relational databases have appeared to solve problems that relational databases aren’t good at. Kristina will go over many of the …
Ask any new Ruby developer what their favorite thing about Ruby is, and they’ll inevitably mention the smooth experience of Rubygems. Initially created as a quick weekend hack, it quickly took the Ruby community by storm, and there are now more than 10,000 Ruby libraries packaged up as Rubygems. In …