For those working on the Ruby platform, this is an interesting time. We have Ruby 1.9 YARV, Rubinius, and JRuby as the most popular Ruby Virtual Machines available right now. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, which have been documented already. While each benchmark comparison may show a particular VM better than another, there is another assessment that needs to be made when selecting the target VM for your next Ruby project: best fit for what your project needs to do.
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No Fluff Just Stuff – Ruby and Rails, myths and half truths is a great article by Bruce Tate that debunks some of the FUD around Ruby and Rails. Here is a summary of his myth-busting: 1. Rails can be all things to all people. 2. Ruby on Rails has not been proven scalable. 3. [...]
InfoQ is a new service by Floyd Marinescu that provides news feeds about all that is happening across Java, Ruby, .Net, Agile, and SOA (Think of TSS for multiple platforms). This is great for technical leads that have to deal with multiple technologies on their projects (like myself) or those that want to keep up [...]
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