A Great Set of IronRuby Tutorials To Bring C# Developers Into The Ruby Fold (7)
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IronRuby is a .NET implementation of Ruby being developed by Microsoft (specifically, by John Lam). The project has matured significantly in the past year, and IronRuby is well on its way to running Rails applications (it already works with very simple ones). IronRuby's major benefit is that it allows Ruby code to access a massive range of .NET libraries and services. Justin Etheredge has put together a great set of tutorial blog posts designed to ...
libxml-ruby 0.8.0 Released: Ruby Gets Fast, Reliable XML Processing At Last (27)
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Ruby's is not known for its deftness with XML. On RubyFlow, I considered calling the community to arms over it, and solicited twenty responses on what the problem is, and what we could do about it. Robert Fischer was lamenting on the state of Ruby's libxml library, and didn't seem to like REXML much either. Tim Bray has also had a few complaints about REXML. It seemed there was a problem to be fixed; a ...
Microsoft’s Latest Bad Idea? ARAX - Ruby-powered AJAX (1)
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Microsoft’s got plans for Ruby beyond the fine IronRuby project in the shape of “ARAX” (Asynchronous Ruby and XML), a Ruby-flavored variety of the popular AJAX Web development techniques. Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin will be able to process and run Ruby code that’s directly within Web pages similar to how browsers process JavaScript. This allows Ruby developers to write Ruby code instead of the equivalent JavaScript as they do now. eWeek interviewed John Lam, creator of ...
