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16 OCT 08
InfoQ: Kenai: Project Hosting Built on JRuby on Rails SAVE
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Project Kenai (pronounced Keen-Eye, according to Tim Bray) is a new project hosting platform from Sun. It integrates several source code management systems, forums, mailinglists, issue-tracking systems and wikis.
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01 MAY 08
Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails SAVE
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We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java
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15 JAN 08
Graeme Rocher's Blog: Grails Making Java Developers Forget about Rails SAVE
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Another 10 reasons to switch from Rails to Grails from Graeme Rocher.
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rain city digest: 10 Reasons to Switch from Rails to Grails SAVE
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After spending a few years really enjoying Rails it was difficult to bring myself to even try groovy and grails. But my latest contract forced me to look for alternatives, and I'm glad I did. Here are some reasons that you may want to switch
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06 JAN 08
Thin - A fast and simple web server " Marc-André Cournoyer's blog SAVE
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Thin is a web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: the Mongrel parser, Event Machine: a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability and Rack
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31 DEC 07
ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto SAVE
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Stay tuned for more about Ruby conferences and why they suck, and why the Pickaxe book is what killed Ruby
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20 DEC 07
Ruby's Concurrency Nightmare SAVE
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Ruby on Rails, like most other programming technologies, now finds itself caught in the concurrency quagmire. While RoR has a streamlined focus on the Web application domain, parallelism isn't as limited in terms of domain, platform or application—it's
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07 DEC 07
Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It's done! SAVE
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Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes. We’ve even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean
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28 NOV 07
Rails Yet To Make Dent in the Enterprise SAVE
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The eardrum-rupturing buzz around Ruby on Rails among Web developers is understandable. So why is this free, open, easy-to-use, passionately advocated Web-app framework having such a hard time gaining serious traction in the enterprise?
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25 NOV 07
Why Ruby on Rails Has Become a Popular "Next Platform" SAVE
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This article is offered as an introduction to Ruby on Rails for Java developers, offering some basic insight into the evolution of Ruby and Rails and its expanding role in enterprise application development