Ruboto is Ruby for Android devices. You can access the full Android API from Ruby, giving your scripts all the power of a native application. Even better, you can build and distribute packages that will run on any Android phone, even ones without Ruboto installed. In this talk, you’ll see …
The discussion about JRuby has for a long time been focused on “Bringing Ruby to the Java World†– but no longer! With the release of “jruby-jars†– a gem containing a runnable version of JRuby available to any platform – the conversation has shifted. We’ll look at how akephalos …
The Crystal 3-step model consists of practices, principles, and personalization. The practices are what you know or learn how to do. The principles are the laws of design that inform you as to what works better and when. Personalization is adapting yourself to your situation, and your practices to your …
As anyone who’s been developing in Rails for a while knows, Ruby and Rails are particularly good tools for modeling complexity. However, very little emphasis has been placed on how to *manage* this complexity. “Domain-Driven Design†is a set of principles, patterns, and practices that help developers manage the complexity …
The brand new Rails 3 release has an impressive array of improvements and new features, including full compatibility with JRuby from the onset. So what does running Rails 3 on the JVM with JRuby look like? A super-charged, caffeine-powered locomotive! We’ll explore all the ways JRuby makes sense for Rails …
This is a 5 minute video that takes you through the steps of getting CruiseControl.rb up and running with a Ruby on Rails project.