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Introduction to XMPP and XMPP4R for Ruby Developers
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 02, 2008
As Wikipedia says, XMPP is “an open, XML-inspired protocol for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging and presence information.” It’s used by Jabber, the Gizmo Project, Google Talk, Pidgin, Kopete, and all sorts of open source instant messaging applications. It can also be used by any applications you want to develop yourself to pass messages back and forth, for example.XMPP support...
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SwitchPipe: My New Rapid and Easy Way To Deploy Web Apps
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 03, 2008
It’s not very often I get to announce my own work here, but SwitchPipe is a new project I’ve been working on since my “No True mod_ruby Is Damaging Ruby’s Viability On The Web” post. It was Ruby Inside’s most commented-on post yet and inspired a lot of discussion about the state of deploying Ruby apps online, and got me to thinking about how to build something to achieve ultra-easy...
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Ruby Cheat Sheets
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 07, 2008
Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, but it’s still often necessary to look up something we’ve forgotten. Often this can be done by using Google or using any Ruby books we have on our shelves, but sometimes it’s handy to refer to a simpler set of notes, such as a “cheat sheet.” Quite a few Ruby developers have made cheat sheets for Ruby, and this post attempts to cover the most...
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Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #16
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 08, 2008
ruby-prof 0.6.0 ReleasedCharlie Savage wants to get the word out about the latest release of ruby-prof, 0.6.0. ruby-prof is an amazing Ruby profiler that’s both faster and more detailed than the standard “profile” library that comes with Ruby. The biggest news is that 0.6.0 supports Ruby 1.9, and Charlie suggests that ruby-prof may even become an official part of Ruby in the future....
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MountainWest Ruby Conference (and other Ruby events news)
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 11, 2008
MountainWest RubyConf 2008 is coming! This year it’s on March 28-29 and based at the main library in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. It runs for two full days and costs just $100. You get lunch on both days and from what I’ve heard, an awful lot of North American Rubyists are going to be there. Highlights include Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Evan Phoenix speaking about Rubinius and Merb, Yehuda Katz...
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Building a Twitter Agent with Ruby and Rails
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 16, 2008
Dominiek ter Heide has put together a great tutorial that walks you through building a “Twitter agent” using Ruby, Rails and XMPP. For those who aren’t on Twitter yet, it’s a free micro-blogging cum “presence” information service that allows users to write 140 character messages that are supposed to represent their current state / feelings / location / etc. A Twitter agent, therefore,...
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Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #18
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 29, 2008
Ruby In Steel Releases Alpha of IDE for “IronRuby”Huw Collingbourne writes in to tell us that Sapphire Steel, the company behind Ruby In Steel, has released the first alpha version of a Ruby In Steel IDE for Microsoft’s IronRuby .NET Ruby implementation. A particularly interesting development is that a visual form designer is included that enables you to drag and drop controls onto forms,...
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Help Fund A Ruby Developer To Work On Open Source For 6 Months
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on March 10, 2008
Last week, Gregory Brown, of the O’Reilly Ruby blog and Ruby Reports, came up with the idea of devoting his time to working on Ruby-related open source projects, as a sort of “Ruby mendicant.” He figured if he could raise at least $500 for each week of work, he could devote 20-25 hours per week to the project. The contributors would then be able to suggest ideas, and potentially vote on the...
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Is Windows a First Class Platform for Ruby?
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on March 25, 2008
Luis Lavena is the new maintainer of the popular Ruby “One-Click Installer” for Microsoft Windows. As part of this new role, Luis has set a milestone of cutting the dependency on pre-built packages. He wants to move development from Visual C++ 6 to MinGW, so that Windows-based Ruby developers will, at least, be able to take advantage of a Linux-esque build system for Ruby libraries in future....
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Scout: A Ruby Powered Web Monitoring and Reporting Service
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on March 26, 2008
Disclaimer: Scout is a commercial service. I have received no compensation for mentioning this service and am posting about it merely due to my own interest in it.Scout is a new “a la carte” monitoring and reporting service, primarily for tracking servers and Web applications, developed by HighGroove Studios. Scout lets you use plugins (provided both by HighGroove and other Scout users)...
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