If at first you don’t succeed…
Anyone who has been following my blog, probably knows that I have been working on some PoC work with Buildr at my office. Well when it came down to it, my boss and I decided that Buildr just isn’t...
View ArticleJVM Language War
Today it seems that certain people have their panties in a wad over a post from Charles Nutter on how to make Ruby syntax look like Groovy syntax. When I first saw Charles’ post I immediately saw it as...
View ArticleOracle Using JRuby
In case you didn’t hear this a couple weeks ago, Oracle published their first JRuby on Rails application as a top level domain on oralce. The application is called Mix, and although I am not exactly...
View Articleacts_as_conference
This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend a local conference, acts_as_conference. The conference was described as an event that was focused on Ruby on Rails, but it seemed to be much more focused...
View ArticleThe JVM is not Java
Is this another rant?….Yes. I apologize for all the rants lately, but hopefully there is some educational value woven throughout my posts, and besides I promised this one. Lets start with a history...
View ArticleJRuby, Ruby gem command conflict
I would have to assume that there are plenty of developers out there that want to install JRuby and Ruby on the same machine. There is a tragic flaw with this, the gem command is the same for both. If...
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