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Ruby 2 p0, Rails 4 Beta 1, and CoffeeScript 1.5 Released
The first stable release of the 2.0 series of the Ruby programming language has been released. Highlighted among its new features are:
Language core features
Keyword arguments, which give flexibility to API design
Module#prepend, which is a new way to extend a class
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__dir__, which returns the dirname of the file currently being executed
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Opscode Chef 11 Released
We're incredibly proud to share the latest major release of Chef with you.
The Chef Client and Chef Server are now separate projects. We will be making separate but compatible releases moving forward.
You can download both of them from the Chef download page .
Erchef, the Chef 11 Server
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RubyInstaller 1.9.3-p286 Released
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…Project that's meant to be a starting point for Rails e-commerce applications.
high performance rails caching with redis and nginx - Delivering the cached info without hitting the Rails stack at all.
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Process your uploads in the background by uploading directly to S3
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File's metadata saving plugin for carrierwave
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Subject: [ ANN] net-http-persistent 2.1 Released
net-http-persistent version 2.1 has been released!
docs.seattlerb.org/net-http-persistent
github.com/drbrain/net-http-persistent
Manages persistent connections using Net:: HTTP plus a speed fix for Ruby 1.8. It's thread-safe too!
Using persistent HTTP connections can dramatically increase the speed of HTTP. Creating a new HTTP connection for every request involves an extra TCP round-trip and causes TCP congestion avoidance negotiation to start over.
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Be advised that:
As a Community Technology Preview, this is an early access program to a work in progress. It's meant for you to try out and give us feedback about it. It is not a final implementation, and as such, you should expect to use it to write apps …
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But What Happens When a New Version is Released?
One reason that people use the activesupport >= 2.3 is that, assuming Rails maintains backward-compatibility, their gem will continue to work in newer Rails environments without any difficulty. If everything happens to work, it saves you the time of running their unit tests against newer versions of dependencies and cutting a new release.
As I said before, this is a deadly practice. By specifying appropriate dependencies (based on …
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Oh dear, the most embarrassing of lead time diseases ! There's a black hole lurking at the bottom of your CFD, on your Kanban board tokens are piling up under "Ready for Release", and your " Released" and "Implemented" columns look depressingly empty.
Common root causes:
Inattention to the release and implementation process
Lack of capacity (whether on the part of the project team or customer) to release &/or implement
The system as built isn't the one expected by the customer