If Ruby on Rails is all about optimizing the development of web applications, then what would happen if you optimized Rails?
Well, it would get streamlined. Streamlined is a generator for Rails that can be used to easily create sites that are much better looking and much easier to use than the standard scaffold generated views. [...]

The Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group had it’s first official meeting last night. A few people showed up and we talked about some of our favorite ruby features. I talked about Metaprogramming a bit. There was also a good discussion about the Ruby Object Model. (Classes are Objects and Object is a class - holy recursion!)
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Ok, so I don’t know what the name is really going to be, but it looks like there is going to be a Ruby User’s group in Milwaukee. There was a kick-off meeting tonight that was well attended for a “getting things started” meeting. Check out the temporary website at http://ruby.georgey.org/
The first official meeting is [...]

Yeah, so I’m sure everyone who cares already knows that Ruby on Rails 1.1 has been released. Congratulations to the core team for what appears to be a quality release. They are building on their strengths for sure and offering some compelling new features.
The official announcement is available, and the semi-official overview of what’s new [...]

One of the big features I keep hearing .NET developers talk about is something called Language Integrated Query (LINQ). LINQ is an Object Query Language (OQL) technology that is slated to be integrated into .NET 3.0. In the general sense an OQL allows you to “query” an object graph much the same way you would [...]

Three Ruby related posts in a row! Yes, I’m currently enamored with this colorful little language.
If you know people that know (or you yourself know) languages like Smalltalk and Lisp, you’ll often hear them curse when they use other languages. Something like “Damn, I could do this so much easier in Smalltalk. To do x [...]

Check out the Ruby Quiz run by James Edward Gray II. It’s a weekly ‘quiz’ that runs on the ruby-talk mailing list each week. I think this is a great idea for any language, but especially emerging languages full of interesting features like Ruby.
This week’s quiz was a meta-programming challenge called metakoans. This was [...]

Web Services are about sharing. SOAP Web Services are about interoperability. If you don’t need to share information or services and if you don’t need to interoperate with other systems or other programming languages, then why incur the overhead of doing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? If you don’t need to share services or data, save [...]

If you are a programmer and have not been living under a rock, you’ve heard of Ruby. There’s been a lot of hype built up around the language recently. Its even more hyped progeny Ruby on Rails highlight the strengths of this dynamic language. A seemingly large number of thought leaders in the software development [...]