The Ruby Reflector

…Rails Summit Latin America" (which has been the largest Ruby and Rails conference in Latin America for the last two years). And this year it won't be different. Several Ruby and Rails developers (like Yehuda Katz, Charles Nutter, Evan Phoenix and many others) have confirmed their presence. If you get the chance, don't miss it!

3) Oredev Sweden: 8th to 12th November

And finally, my last stop will be in Sweden at the developer conference held in Malmö …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Ukraine, Sweden, Brazil, Yehuda Katz
• Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
• Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
• Merbist: Discussion with a Java switcher
• New Relic: Rails 3 is here! Congrats to everyone who contributed! Learn how to get started with RPM on Rails 3.
• Jake Scruggs: Ruby Kaigi 2010 Day 1
• Meta Bates: CoverMe - Code Coverage for Ruby 1.9

…have several of the Brazilian Rails contributors such as José Valim and Ruby Summer of Code participants, Thiago Pradi and Ricardo Panaggio.

We will have some of the community luminaries such as David Black and Jim Weirich. Non-rubysts such as Blaine Cook will be here too, and more!

I intend to publish a few blog posts presenting more details about some of the speakers, so stay tuned! Meanwhile check out the program schedule . It can still change until the event. …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Brazil, Metro, Rubinius, American
• Orlando Ruby Users Group: Meeting Thursday, August 12th
• Luigi Montanez: Ten Ruby Conferences (and Three Camps) in Eight Weeks
• Ruby Inside: EuRuKo 2010: Summaries, Videos, and Photos from Europe's Ruby Conference
• RubyLearning Blog: Rails Summit Latin America 2009
• Merbist: RailsSummit - an amazing adventure
• How Software is Built: Interview with Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Automattic

…Ruby 1.9, but it's hard to claim that any implementation will be able to run Ruby as fast as C for general-purpose libraries any time soon.

However, a large number of extensions - perhaps a majority of extensions - exist only to wrap a well-known and well-trusted C library. Nokogiri, for example, wraps the excellent libxml. RMagick wraps ImageMagick. For these cases, there's no alternative on regular Ruby...it's the C library or nothing (or in the case of Nokogiri…

• Topics: JRuby, Java, Nokogiri, RMagick, MySQL
• casperfabricius.com: Multiple Ruby versions with RVM
• format internet:: Video of my talk "Jruby On Rails" at the Sun Open Communities Forum
• ones zeros majors and minors: Resque 1.4.0
• Ramblings: Rails & JRuby in a Jar
• RubyFlow - Search for jruby: Screencast: live audio VST plugins coding with JRuby
• Rubycon - All things geared towards web development: Thoughts on Dave Thomas Keynote - Fork Jruby not Ruby

…this interview he tells us more about this project and also talks about investment in open source and Ruby Summer of Code.

Direct video link

Ryan Bates

Ryan bates requires no introduction, I think everybody knows the famous " Railscasts", the most well known screencast web site in the community. In this interview the point was to give a face to the voice we are used to listen every week. I asked Ryan to tell us how he started with Railscasts.

As he was the …

• Topics: Santiago Pastorino, Ryan, Ruby on Rails, Flip, NoSQL
• Ruby Inside: Quality Interviews with 10 Rubyists (and Bob Martin)

…been effective: Provide funding for students to write code for well-established open source projects. Ruby Summer of Code follows the same path, and should be expected to yield similarly fruitful results. For example, it's expected that by the end of the summer, Ruby on Android will be a viable development platform. All individuals and companies who funded RubySoC knew exactly what they were getting.

But Diaspora is a big fat question mark when it comes to execution. Can …

• Topics: Diaspora, Facebook, rubysoc, Ruby, Code
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• Signal vs. Noise: This week in Twitter
• Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: Announcing Rails Dispatch!
• Transcending Frontiers: The Frontier Group sponsors the Ruby Summer of Code
• Blue Box Group: News: Ruby Summer of Code!
• Riding Rails - home: Ruby Summer of Code

Thanks to Engine Yard, Ruby Central, and the Rails team, Ruby Summer of Code has raised $100k in just three days, allowing us to run 20 student projects! Hooray!

Ruby Summer of Code

Now of course we really would love to have some JRuby projects involved. There's so much exciting stuff going on with JRuby, and I believe it's the most promising platform for really growing the Ruby community. So we've set up a page for JRuby Ruby Summer of Code 2010 …

• Topics: JRuby, Code, Android, Hibernate, Summer
• English - AkitaOnRails.com: Info Award, Speeches through Brazil, My Year of 2008
• Lance: Converting an application from Ruby on Rails to Java and other misguided decisions
• Litany Against Fear: JRuby: Who What Now? Notes
• Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: JRuby BugMash and Events!
• igvita.com: State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance
• RubyLearning Blog: Do YOU want to learn JRuby using Google Wave?

…we'll raise the number of student slots as contributions come in." - Ruby Summer of Code

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ruby Summer of Code?

Ruby Summer of Code is a student internship program, modeled after Google's Summer of Code, designed to help fund student development of Ruby coding projects in Summer 2010.

What are the goals of this program?

The goals of the program are to help get students engaged in Ruby development and the Ruby…

• Topics: Code, Google, Student, GSOC, Development
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