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Is the Ruby Standard Library a Ghetto?

In The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto, Mike Perham argues that Ruby's "standard library" (all the libraries that come by default with Ruby installs) is old and crufty and suggests some parts that should be removed.

Fikus: Deploying Padrino to Engine Yard AppCloud

Padrino and Engine Yard AppCloud
Engine Yard AppCloud is a great platform for deploying Ruby on Rails applications quickly and easily. It's not only good for Rails, but it also makes it just as easy to deploy any application using Rack or Rack-based frameworks like Sinatra.

I'm a big fan of Sinatra and use it for both internal and personal projects.

Chronic 0.3.0 Released: Improved Natural Language Date/Time Parsing

Tom Preston-Werner has pushed out version 0.3.0 of Chronic, the popular natural language date and time parsing library for Ruby. It's a significant release because the last was 0.2.3 back in July 2007! Grab it now with gem install chronic

Wesley Beary and fog Promoted to the Engine Yard Open Source Program

There's a lot of muscle under the hood of the Engine Yard AppCloud and xCloud offerings providing Rails/Ruby automation, management and support. I am ecstatic to announce that a critical layer of our automation -- fog, the Ruby library for cloud computing and provisioning, along with its creator Wesley Beary -- are being promoted to the Engine Yard Open Source Program!

Fog: A Powerful “Cloud Services” Gem

fog is a Ruby gem by Wesley Beary to control a variety of cloud services through a unified API. It deals with both server cloud and storage based services and supports Amazon S3 and Rackspace Files; as well as servers and on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Servers, Terremark vCloud and Slicehost. Support is also available for Amazon ELB and SimpleDB.

The Why, What, and How of Rubinius 1.0’s Release

Rubinius or GitHub repo, an alternative Ruby implementation that's built in Ruby itself - as much as possible, has this last weekend hit the coding equivalent of a Bar Mitzvah..

RPCFN: Interactive Fiction (#9)

Cinch: A Ruby IRC Bot Building Framework

Cinch (or GitHub repo) is a new Ruby "microframework" for creating IRC bots.

Michael Fogus talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Michael Fogus talks to the Clojure 101 course participants on Clojure.

phpBB on GitHub

The phpBB team recently completed a move from SVN to Git and are now hosting their repositories on GitHub!

I remember phpBB being one of my first experiences with online programming — trying to setup a forum for my now dead drumming site.

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