…other Rubinius related questions, feel free to direct them to @ Rubinius on Twitter, or email them to community@rubini.us .
NOTE: Don't miss the upcoming JRuby webinar led by Nick Sieger on September 15. Register now to save a spot. Topics you want to learn about in the webinar? Direct them to @ JRuby on Twitter.
- Nick Sieger: Deploying, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Rails on JRuby
- Obie Fernandez: A Farewell Shot of Jack for Durran
- Rails Illustrated: Screencast: Hover Content in Rails and Prototype (Part 1)
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Brian Kalma on Designing Experiences - watch the whole talk!
- Luigi Montanez: Three Videos from RailsConf
- Luke Melia: "Managing Rubyists" video from GoRuCo
Get specs passing on jruby ( Sidu Ponnappa)
Fix bug where mixing nested groups and outer-level examples gave unpredictable :line_number behavior ( Artur Małecki)
Regexp.escape the argument to -example (tip from Elliot Winkler)
Correctly pass/fail pending block with message expectations
CommandLine returns exit status (0/1) instead of true/false
Create path to formatter output file if it doesn't exist ( marekj).
rspec-expectations-2.6.0
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…1.6.6. A few noteworthy mentions in this list is JRUBY-5657 (new 1.9 splat behavior), JRUBY- (new 1.9 to_ary behavior), and JRUBY-6067 ( Windows YAML issue).
If there is some issue we don't have targetted but you think is drop-dead important then please let us know...We are willing to expedite other issues if presented with a reasonable case for why it should be fixed. Please join the discussion .
- Ruby Inside: JRuby 1.5.0 Released: The Best Alternative Ruby Implementation Gets Even Better
- Headius: Finding Leaks in Ruby Apps with Eclipse Memory Analyzer
- A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: Ruboto: JRuby on Android
- Heroku: Gemcutter's Adventure on Heroku
- igvita.com: Distributed Coordination with Zookeeper
- casperfabricius.com: Multiple Ruby versions with RVM
…Java, regardless of the VM technologies involved. We'll be able to get close; JRuby can, with the help of invokedynamic, make method calls *nearly* as fast as Java calls, and by generating type shapes we can make object state *nearly* as predictable as Java types, but we can't go all the way. Regardless of how great the underlying VM is, if you can't hold to its immutable truths, you're walking against the wind. Ruby on Dart would probably not be any faster than …
- Damien Katz: Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"
- Complicated Simplicity: There is nothing new except what is forgotten
- igvita.com: Beyond Ruby: Mirah, Reia, Rite
- New Relic: New Relic Server Monitoring Now Available for Joyent SmartOS
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: OpenVZ starters
- Programblings: An epiphany about Functional Programming and Lazy Evaluation
kramdown-man is a markdown to man page converter, using the pure-Ruby kramdown markdown library. kramdown-man seeks to support the majority of markdown syntax and roff tags. Unlike ronn or md2man , kramdown-man does not depend on any C extensions, and supports JRuby.
Kramdown exposes the full Abstract Syntax Tree ( AST) of the markdown document . This makes it very easy to write markdown Converters .
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: ruote and flow
- Practicing Ruby: Sexp for Rubyists
- MacRuby Posts: MacRuby 0.5 beta 1
- Ruby Inside: The Mega March 2012 Ruby and Rails News and Release Roundup
Get specs passing on jruby ( Sidu Ponnappa)
Fix bug where mixing nested groups and outer-level examples gave unpredictable :line_number behavior ( Artur Małecki)
Regexp.escape the argument to -example (tip from Elliot Winkler)
Correctly pass/fail pending block with message expectations
rspec-expectations-2.6.0.rc2
Enhancments
change matcher accepts Regexps ( Robert Davis)
better descriptions for have xxx matchers ( Magnus Bergmark)
Bug fixes …
…64-bit JVM. You can verify this by opening a command prompt and typing @ jruby -v@. The output should be similar to that below. The important point is that it is running on a " 64-bit Server VM."
bq. jruby 1.5.6 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 249) ( 2010-12-03 9cf97c3) ( Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_23) [amd64-java]
*Note:* JRuby currently only provides a JRuby+JRE installer for the 32-bit JRE. They are working on a 64-bit version but its not quite ready yet, …
- Ruby Inside: The Why, What, and How of Rubinius 1.0's Release
- LoGeek's software blog: On JRuby, Resque and Windows
- Slicehost VPS Hosting is now Rackspace Cloud Servers hosting - Blog: Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) now available
- MetaSkills.net: Visor Terminal on Snow Leopard
- Falling Leaves - Home: Snow Leopard Developer Upgrade Notes
- Intridea - Company Blog: Intridea Insider: Xue Yong Zhi
…world, where the only real option for concurrency was running multiple processes. Recent versions of JRuby and MRI have changed that landscape. With Rubies providing OS-backed support for concurrency primitives, libraries and servers are taking advantage of threads like never before.
In light of this, we've done a significant rewrite - focused on thread safety - to how the Ruby agent accesses its metric data structures. All the agent internals now work through a set of methods which …
- Mike Perham: Signal Handling with Ruby
- Ruby Inside: The Last 2 Weeks in Ruby: Rails 3.2.6, Savon 1.0, RailsInstaller for OS X, Pow 0.4.0, Rails 2 Asset Pipeline
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #999
- Matthew Bass: RubyConf 2012 recap
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Using rbenv to manage rubies and gems
- Signal vs. Noise: Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion
…we'll be sending each of the first 100 participants a limited edition JRubyConf Poster.
The JRuby Core Team will be around on IRC channel # jruby throughout the BugMash to help folks get started and to answer questions. Be sure to stop in and say hello!
There's also a great post on the good and bad of JRuby over at the Engine Yard blog .
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: JRuby BugMash and Events!
- Headius: Which Deployment for JRuby on Rails?
- RubyLearning Blog: Do YOU want to learn JRuby using Google Wave?
- Litany Against Fear: JRuby: Who What Now? Notes
- Programblings: Follow-up on my presentation on JRuby
- Videos matching: rubyonrails: Track your running miles ... JRuby, Ruby-on-Rails, GlassFish, NetBeans, MySQL, YUI
The JRuby team also is usually present in the IRC room # jruby on irc.freenode.net, so feel free to stop by there to chat. You can also follow @ jruby on Twitter to stay on top of important updates.
Do you have any prediction or comments on Ruby/ JRuby adoption in the enterprise in the next couple of years? I'm personally bullish on JRuby adoption and consider it part of my mission on the JRuby team to make it happen. It's hard to say in exact terms how it will …
- Junior developer: How to use JavaCC with JRuby
- RubyLearning Blog: An Introduction to Desktop Apps with Ruby
- Headius: Kicking JRuby Performance Up a Notch
- Programblings: Follow-up on my presentation on JRuby
- Videos related to 'Ruby on Rails vs Java - Commercial #1 of 9': Google I/O 2009 - JRuby & Ioke on Google App Engine for Java
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Announcing EncryptedCookieStore plugin for Rails 2.3