Ruby Matters

This article from Webmonkey.com gives a good overview of Ruby on Rails features including:

• Migrations
• Scaffolding
• Customizing the application

Easyspace, one of the largest Virtual Server providers in the UK, has updated its VPS range to now include Custom Build and Ruby-on-Rails ready Virtual Servers.

New Ruby on Rails Virtual Servers come with a reliable and proven Ruby on Rails stack, with the most common elements of a rails application already downloaded, installed and configured. Customers can begin developing rails applications, and production-ready Rails applications should just plug and play with minimal effort. The stack includes Ruby, Subversion, MySQL, SQLite, ImageMagick, several Ruby Gems and Apache 2.2 with rewrite and proxy support

Months of work has just been released as MacRuby 0.3 which makes strides to greatly simplify Cocoa programming:

• MacRuby now ships with a core library called HotCocoa, something which greatly simplifies Cocoa programming while also using simple Ruby idioms.
• MacRuby is now using the Objective-C runtime to implement the Ruby class semantics and also to dispatch pure Ruby methods. This is an important change because it simplifies a lot the core implementation and also eliminates ambiguities between both worlds.
• Supports Interface Builder in this release. You can define classes, outlets and actions in a MacRuby Xcode project and they will automatically appear in Interface Builder.

InfoQ talks to Eoghan McCabe from Contrast (Exceptional) and Matt Jankowski from Hoptoad:

Exception monitoring is always critical to handle. Rails plugin ExceptionNotifier made this task easier by providing a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application. Two companies (Exceptional and Hoptoad) help with this by providing a third party service which intercepts exceptions and displays them in a web interface. Notification by Mail or SMS is also an option.

Read the full article.

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