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Best Ruby I.D.E?Just started with Ruby on Rails ( Rails 3) and I'm trying to figure out the best I.D.E. Here's what I've found so far: Eclipse / DLTK - w… Started by Kevin Neelands |
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Opening Call for Proposal - RubyConf India 2012This just in from Satish N Kota of the Bangalore RUG: "Hello Folks,Lets begin the begin and in that spirit, call for talk proposals isop… Started by Michael Levin |
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EasyBThis just in from Luis Espinal of MJUG: http://www.easyb.org/ The EasyB syntax for writing stories and specifications is a lot more succ… Started by Michael Levin |
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HoboI read a fascinating thread (on the Bangalore RUG) there's a application builder for Rails called Hobo. "...It generates views by inspectin… Started by Michael Levin |
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Ruby on the JVMWho is using Ruby on the JVM? Please share your sweet successes with us. Started by Michael Levin |
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Aug 20, 2009 Reply by Michael Levin |
Ruby and Cloud ComputingI'm embarking on an adventure. The mission is to discover all I can about cloud computing. I'm interested to hear anything you've learned… Started by Michael Levin |
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Peter Morgan introduced Tansu at QCon London, an open-source, Kafka-compatible, stateless, leaderless broker that scales to zero, with pluggable storage (S3, SQLite, Postgres), broker-side schema validation, and direct writes to Iceberg and Delta Lake. Written in Rust, it uses 20MB of RAM and starts in 10 milliseconds.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Sonatype Guide is a real-time guardrail system that sits between AI coding tools and the open-source ecosystem, ensuring AI-generated code uses safe, valid, and maintainable dependencies.
By Sergio De Simone
Lesley Cordero discusses platform engineering as a practice for driving sociotechnical change and organizational sustainability. She explains the "pendulum of tension" between developer experience and reliability, emphasizing that architectural patterns must solve for organizational complexity. She shares a leadership framework for moving from reactive heroism to proactive stewardship.
By Lesley Cordero
Stripe engineers describe Minions, autonomous coding agents generating over 1,300 pull requests per week. Tasks can originate from Slack, bug reports, or feature requests. Using LLMs, blueprints, and CI/CD pipelines, Minions produce production-ready changes while maintaining reliability and human review.
By Leela Kumili
Harness has announced the general availability of Harness Artifact Registry, a platform capability designed to simplify how engineering teams store, secure, and govern software artifacts within modern DevSecOps pipelines.
By Craig Risi
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