The Ruby on Rails project released a preview of the upcoming Rails 2.0 framework. Notable improvements include even more REST-friendly APIs, easier security configuration via HTTP authentication, more abstraction in templating, including support for the iPhone, and performance improvements.
In a recent InfoQ article, Sun's Roman Strobl reviews three Ruby-related features of NetBeans: Ruby code completion, debugging, and refactoring.
In a series of short interviews, Ruby language creator Yukihiro Matsumoto and Koichi Sasada, implementor of the new Ruby VM, YARV, discuss the directions for the next-generation Ruby runtime. Among the topics discussed is the move to native threads.
IronRuby is Microsoft's new implementation of the Ruby language on the .NET Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Ruby code executed via IronRuby can invoke code written in any other .NET language, such as C#, Python and VB. Microsoft's Scott Guthrie introduces IronRuby in his blog.
After a long period of development, the latest update to the Ruby on Rails framework was released. Rails 1.2 introduces several hundred new features, the most significant ones focusing on RESTful services and better utilization of the HTTP protocol.
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