Ruby isn't known for its game development chops despite having a handful of interesting libraries suited to it. Java, on the other hand, has a thriving and popular game development scene flooded with powerful libraries, tutorials and forums. Can we drag some of Java's thunder kicking and screaming over to...
How do I run a Sinatra app using JRuby?
How do I run a Sinatra app using JRuby? RubyLearning is conducting a free, online JRuby 101 course – the first of its kind, on Google+ Some participants wanted an answer to their question “How do I run a Sinatra app using JRuby?” This blog post explains the same. Read on. Pre-requisite I have a...
How do I run a Sinatra app using JRuby?
How do I run a Sinatra app using JRuby? RubyLearning is conducting a free, online JRuby 101 course – the first of its kind, on Google+ Some participants wanted an answer to their question “How do I run a Sinatra app using JRuby?” This blog post explains the same. Read on. Pre-requisite I have a...
JRuby 1.6 Released: Ruby 1.9.2 Support and More
It's a newsflash! JRuby 1.6.0 has been released today. Congratulations to the JRuby team. 1.6 is a significant and much awaited release and comes after a 9 month push of over 2500 commits.
Hit up the official release post...
JRuby 1.6.0 RC1 Released: JRuby Gets All 1.9.2 On Us
The JRuby team has announced the release of JRuby 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1. The final release is still a little way off but the bulk of the work is in place. It's billed as the "largest release of JRuby to date" which, given how awesome 1.5...
JRuby Programming 2nd Batch: An Online Course For Beginners
Introducing an online course for beginners that helps you get started with JRuby programming. What’s JRuby? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRuby – “JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language, being developed by the JRuby team. JRuby is tightly integrated with Java to allow the embedding of the interpreter into any Java application with full...
An Introduction to Desktop Apps with Ruby
An Introduction to Desktop Apps with Ruby This guest post is contributed by Martin Sadler, who has over 10 years experience in the web development industry working with a range of successful high profile businesses, public sector organisations, and individuals. He is best known in the Ruby community as the creator of Working With Rails...
JRubyConf 2010
ELC is proudly sponsoring JRubyConf this year. This year, we’ve seen more and more cases of JRuby making its way into existing Java-centric enterprises and bootstrapped startups alike. As the Ruby ecosystem keeps growing, new VM/Implementation ...
How to Build a “Spy Camera” App for an Android Phone with Ruby and Sinatra
It's been a great year for Ruby on Android, but no one knows it. You can start writing Ruby apps for Android devices TODAY. You don't need to install any SDK, you don't need to install some giant Eclipse IDE, and you certainly don't need to write any Java.
Mike Leone
June 4 2010: Okay, here’s a link post
Quick links post: Gregory Brown is looking for comments and donations for a proposal for a Ruby Mendicant University, basically a rolling online Ruby course. Charles Nutter is interviewed by InfoQ on the state of JRuby. Yehuda Katz has a long post on various kinds of extensions in Rails 3 — gems, plugins, generators. This...
June 1, 2010: June, she’ll change her tune
iPad Note I keep wanting to write about the iPad, but so, so many other people are writing about it that I’m not sure I have anything to add. More or less at random, I really liked the brief rant Joe Posnanski added in the middle of an otherwise-unrelated blog post, and Charles Stross’ typically...
May 13, 2010: The Rules of Agile Estimation
Top Story JRuby 1.5 is out. Highlights include improved Rails 3 support, better support for Windows, better FFI support, better startup time (yay!) and a lot of other tweaks and fixes. Book Update Still Cucumbering, hope to finish today. The book is still on sale, of course. And I’d still love to see more comments...
