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Posted about 17 years ago by Curt Hibbs
Antonio Cangiano has provided a fascinating glimpse into the current state of the many VM implementations of Ruby. He has run a sizable set of benchmarks against seven different Ruby implementations: Ruby 1.8.5 on Linux Ruby 1.8.5 on Windows Ruby ... [More] 1.9 (Yarv/Rite) on Linux JRuby on Linux Gardens Point Ruby.NET on Windows Rubinius on Linux Cardinal on Linux The graph above shows the averages and median scores, but the details are just as interesting. I also completely agree with Antonio’s caveats: Don’t read too much into this and don’t draw any final conclusions. Each of these exciting projects have their own reason for being, as well as different pros and cons, which are not considered in this post. They each have a different level of stability and completeness. Furthermore, some of them haven’t been optimized for speed yet. Take this post for what it is: an interesting experiment; The results may entirely change in the next 3, 6, 12 months… I’ll be back! The scope of the benchmarks is limited because they can’t stress every single feature of each implementation. It’s just a sensible set of benchmarks that give us a general idea of where we are in terms of speed; These tests were run on my machine, your mileage may vary; [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by pat eyler
This year’s first regional Ruby conference, the MountainWest RubyConf will be held March 16th and 17th in Salt Lake City, UT. It is accepting registrations until Feb 23rd. While it might be small in its geographical reach, it looks like a very big ... [More] conference in almost every other way. The keynote speaker at the conference is going to be Chad Fowler. From what he’s told me, his talk looks like everything you’d expect from a RubyConf organizer, respected Ruby and Rails trainer, published author, and jazz musician. The conference has a great lineup of speakers too. These include: John Lam, Charles Nutter, James Britt, Ara T Howard, and several others. As usual, the hallway track is perhaps the most important thing going, and we should have a great one. We already have people registered from California, Oregon, Illinois, and New York — not to mention the many locals from Utah, Idaho, Arizona, and Colorado. Oh, did I mention that we’re also going to have a powder track? This is Utah after all, and there should be great skiing and snow boarding both before and after the conference. One of the most exciting features of the conference is that we’re also hosting the second Alternative Ruby Implementors’ Summit. We’ll have representatives from Sun and Microsoft, as well as individual contributors, representing: cardinal, JRuby, rubinius, and RubyCLR. Not only will these hackers be meeting together to work on common issues, but they’ll be presenting an Implementors’ Panel during the conference, to discuss their work and answer questions. There are a lot of ways that this looks like a big conference, but there’s one more way it looks small — price. Registration is only $50, and that will get you: a day and a half of presentations, a cool conference T-shirt, and a great chance to hang out with some of the best and brightest rubyists from the mountain west, and around the country. [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by Gregory Brown
In your views def _time_entry_form(entry) _form_for(entry,R(AddTimeEntry)) end def _form_for(record,handler,options={}) attributes = record.attribute_names if options[:only] attributes = options[:only] elsif options[:omit] ... [More] attributes -= options[:omit] end attributes -= ["id"] form :action => handler, :method => 'post' do attributes.each do |e| p do label "#{e}: ", :for => e input :type => 'text', :name => e, :value => record.send(e) end end input :type => 'submit', :value => "Submit" end end In your controllers class AddClient < R '/client/new' def get @client = Client.new render :add_client end def post Models::Client.create(input) redirect ShowClients end end Oh ye gods of camping.. what do you think? [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by Rob Orsini
I’m pleased to announce a new Ruby Users Group for folks north of San Francisco (or who like to go to Sebastopol, CA): the North Bay Ruby Users Group. Our first meeting is this week; February 15th, 2007 at 7:00pm. O’Reilly has graciously offered us ... [More] a place to meet, so we’ll be holding the meetings at O’Reilly HQ in Sebastopol, CA (directions). Meetings are on the third Thursday of each month. If you’re interested in learning more, please sign up for the mailing list. Our first meeting will feature Keith Fahlgren and myself, kicking things off by discussing how O’Reilly uses Ruby to make good things happen. Please RSVP on the mailing list so we know how much pizza to buy. We hope to see you there! [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by Curt Hibbs
IntelliJ has posted a screencast demo of their Ruby plugin. It looks really nice! Even better… in the screencast they’re using my open source project, Instant Rails, to supply their instance of Ruby — cool!
Posted about 17 years ago by Curt Hibbs
Professors John Gough and Wayne Kelly at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, just announced the second release of their Ruby.NET compiler that statically compiles Ruby programs for the .NET CLR. Ruby is such a dynamic language ... [More] that it hard for me to understand how they can even do this (an eWeek.com article last summer discussed some of the unique challenges). The big news is that it successfully runs all 871 in Ruby’s installation test suite (in samples/test.rb). Their next goal is to get Ruby on Rails running: We have just started work on getting Ruby on Rails to run on Ruby.NET and have started work on adding interoperability features to allow .NET programs written in other languages to conveniently use Ruby components and vice versa. We hope to include some of these features in the next public release. Our plan now is to perform public releases more frequently, approximately once a month. Once we have stabalized the major design choices (including those required for interop) we will move to a more traditional open source type model where others can contribute directly to the code base. We expect this to happen in the second half of this year. [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by Derek Sivers
The CD Baby sponsored contest for RailsConf 2007 is complete! (Original announcement here and here.) The top 20 winners are posted at the Rails Hackfest 2007 Winners page on WorkingWithRails.com. But.. I want to point to the top 40 winners for two ... [More] reasons: (1) - because everyone who contributed deserves a hell of a lot of credit for making Rails itself even better, even if they weren’t top-20. (2) - because there’s a chance that not-everyone in the top 20 will be able to attend RailsConf 2007, even though we’re paying for registration and hotel. I’ve already pre-paid for 20 registrations and 20 hotel rooms, so for every person in the top 20 who tells me they can’t make it, I’ll go down to #21 on the list. Top 40 Rails Hackfest 2007 Winners: 1. Jeremy McAnally (1953) 2. Dan Manges (1771) 3. Jarkko Laine (1128) 4. Scott Meade (1106) 5. Manfred Stienstra (1045) 6. Josh Susser (878) 7. Zack Chandler (864) 8. Ben Scofield (833) 9. Ryan Daigle (809) 10. Brian Donovan (794) 11. Steven A Bristol (785) 12. Anthony Eden (773) 13. Jamie Quint (760) 14. Rob Sanheim (756) 15. Rich Collins (728) 16. Ben Sandofsky (725) 17. Seth Ladd (713) 18. Kevin Clark (685) 19. Dan Kubb (588) 20. Nicholas Wakelin (587) 21. Michael Schoen (483) 22. Benjamin Curtis (360) 23. David Rice (335) 24. Jakob Skjerning (220) 25. Cody Fauser (220) 26. Mislav Marohnić (211) 27. Eustáquio Rangel (204) 28. Josh Peek (171) 29. Laurel Fan (163) 30. Tieg Zaharia (154) 31. Ian Dees (132) 32. Jonathan Viney (119) 33. Bojan Mihelac (114) 34. Bert Goethals (113) 35. Dave Myron (111) 36. Ezra Zygmuntowicz (110) 37. Phil Ross (108) 38. Graeme Mathieson (100) 39. Aaron Wheeler (100) 40. Christophe Porteneuve (76) [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by Rob Orsini
a comment and response from my blog entry announcing the release of the Rails Cookbook: by Leonard Richardson on 27 Jan 01:22 Rob, congratulations! Everyone else: from my experience O’Reilly is still getting used to the PDF thing. @Leonard: Thanks ... [More] very much. Yeah, you’re right but as they say, real change comes from within. That said, having the non-Safari PDF pub two weeks after the print version (down from six) may have taken some fireworks out of the release party, but it isn’t really that long to wait–even in Rails time. In addition to PDF releases, other progress O’Reilly made was towards a 100% XML-based editorial and production process. Having the book constantly in DocBook allowed me to incorporate contributed content easily and to build Ruby tools to manipulate that content. DocBook also allowed me to easily update the book for Rails 1.2 late in the production process. In reality, O’Reilly gets a whole different set of problems then some of their smaller publishing partners, like the Prags. One of those problems is how to publish the large volume of titles they offer, with consistently high quality. To do this they have to have more cooks in the kitchen (authors, editors, etc…) and that makes adapting to new processes more difficult, but definitly not impossible. The pattern here is that our media is getting richer and PDFs are just a first step in that direction. The future is open. Rob [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by Rob Orsini
The Rails Cookbook is finally available! I wasn’t sure how the timing of the book’s production schedule and that of the release of Rails 1.2 would work out, but it looks like I nailed it. I had a blast working on it and with all the people in the ... [More] community that helped make it a reality. I know that many of you are waiting for the PDF version and I’m working with folks here at O’Reilly to make that happen by a week from Monday (Feb. 5th). Please watch the book’s catalog page or my blog for updates. [Less]
Posted about 17 years ago by Mike Loukides
Andy Oram has been talking to some people who are interested in hiring Ruby developers for work on a patent reform project. Perhaps we should have a separate forum for job and project postings.