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Rails 2.0 and Scaffolding Step by Step. Ruby on Rails 2.0 was released by the Rails core team on Friday, December 7th. There were quite a few changes in the 2.0 release, including the way that Rails generates scaffolding code. This change will probably cause trouble for people using tutorials written for previous versions of Rails. I hope this tutorial will help readers get started with Rails 2.0 and keep the community of Rails developers growing.

JetBrains adds Ruby, Groovy to Java IDE  JetBrains now is offering its JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails framework developers. Also available is Ruby Plugin 1.0 for Ruby development. These free, open source plug-ins previously were offered in a beta format.

IBM mashup maker uses Ruby on Rails

IBM has released IBM Sharable Code, an online development platform for the Ruby on Rails Web framework, the company said on Wednesday.

Sharable Code and another new tool, Web Highlights, are free services for entry-level developers and users to utilize Web 2.0 resources, IBM said. Sharable Code is a mashup maker leveraging Ruby on Rails. Web Highlights, for highlighting content on the Web, was built with Sharable Code. Both Sharable Code and Web Highlights are available on IBM’s alphaWorks site.

Ruby and Graphics GNOME, GTK , Cairo and Pango

Ruby zone » Recursive directory listing В PHP или других языках чтобы получить содержимое директории и всех ее поддиректорий, нужно написать несколько строк кода, в Ruby же это займет 2 строчки:

require ‘find’
Find.find(’./’) do |f| p f end

- это напечатает содержимое текущей директории и всех ее поддиректорий.

Или даже короче, можно использовать нотацию ’**’ : p Dir[’**/*.*’]
Сколько нужно написать кода для того же на PHP или Java?

RubyForge: activerecord-jdbc-0.5-released ActiveRecord-JDBC is a database adapter for Rails’ ActiveRecord component that can be used with JRuby[http://www.jruby.org/]. It allows use of virtually any JDBC-compliant database with your JRuby on Rails application.

google-api-adwords-ruby - Google Code Ruby client library for the AdWords API makes it easier to write Ruby clients to programmatically access AdWords accounts. The client library is provided as a gem, or can be installed independently. This open source project also contains sample code in Ruby demonstrating how to use the most useful services from the AdWords API.

HOWTO Make Yahoo! Web Service REST calls with Ruby - Yahoo! Developer Network

This HOWTO describes how to perform GET and POST requests using Net::HTTP and Net::HTTPS, both part of the Ruby standard library.

• Simple GET requests
• Simple POST requests
• Authenticated requests

scRUBYt! - a Simple to Learn and Use, yet Powerful Web Scraping Toolkit Written in Ruby

www.hardwarezone.com® :: News Flash At A Glance! The Information Technology Standards Committee (ITSC) announced code::XtremeApps::, the first round-the-clock computer programming competition to be held in Singapore on September 22. Targeted at students and technoprenuers alike, code::XtremeApps:: will challenge the creativity of the contestants in developing innovative web applications strictly within a 24-hour timeframe, using Web 2.0 tools such as Ruby on Rails, Google Web Toolkit, Google Gadgets and Google Maps, and staying within the parameter of the competition theme which will only be announced at the onset of the actual event. The grand prize is an all-expense paid trip to Googleplex, Google’s headquarters in California, USA. Registration is now open via the ITSC official website at www.itsc.org.sg.