Why the lucky stiff, who brought us the fabuolous “Why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby”, just released this new awesome web application: Try Ruby Try Ruby is a web based, interactive Ruby tutorial, sort of like IRB on steroids. If you are curious about the kinds of things newbies and script kiddies are trying out in the console, check out Why’s recent blog post. I love the idea of making “wtf” an alias for “help”....
It sounds like a new book might need to be added to the list of must-have Ruby books: “Enterprise Integration with Ruby”, written by Maik Schmidt and published as a Pragmatic Bookshelf title, is currently in beta. As with all Pragmatic Bookshelf titles, you can purchase the beta PDF now and receive the full PDF or paper version of the book as soon as it comes out. The book covers a diverse range of integration topics, including databases, LDAP, XML, low level services like sockets, HTTP, and REST, high level services like XML-RPC and SOAP, and more....
Here’s one way to compare the Ruby and Java technology stacks. :) (via the Ruby on Rails Blog) Update: Here’s the true origin of this comparison.
Recently I’ve been using YAML files along with some Ruby scripts as a simple and convenient mechanism for importing content into our database. The YAML files will be maintained by content authors, and one of the questions that came up is that of validation. Luckily, there’s a very nice solution in form of Kwalify, a small schema validator for YAML. Conceptionally, it is similar to the corresponding XML technologies such as XML Schema or RelaxNG....
The last time I mentioned the RDT (aka RubyEclipse) project about two months ago, I thought that development on this otherwise promising project had stalled. Since then I’ve started lurking on the RDT development mailing list, and I was happy to notice that the project appeared to be picking up speed again. The developers are realizing that Ruby is commanding significant interest these days, not least because of the Ruby on Rails framework that is gaining a lot of traction....