Blogo is a Mac / OS X blogging client developed by Brainjuice - the business name of Benjamin Jackson and Ivan Neto, Rio based Ruby developers and Web designers - and born out of their frustration with existing commercial blog editors. Brainjuice believe Blogo is the first commercial OS X Ruby app (...

If you read a lot of Ruby blogs, you might see people talking about testing (or its behavior driven equivalent) as if it's the holy grail, yet most Ruby books and online tutorials fail to cover it in much detail at all. Last year, Jamie Van Dyke wrote an article for The Rubyist called Building A Gem...

It's approaching two weeks now since Ruby 1.9.1 was released, bringing with it not only a whole stack of extra performance and a new VM, but also a lot of compatibility issues. No pain, no gain! Thankfully, the Ruby community in its typical way has got to blogging, writing scripts, and what not, res...

It's time to thank those great companies and individuals who help keep Ruby Inside (and often other Ruby sites) going. Note: All descriptions and notes are written by Ruby Inside and are not directly influenced by the sponsors. As such, any opinions stated are those of Ruby Inside and not necessaril...

Note: This post was intentionally delayed due to ruby-lang.org going down for maintenance shortly after the release of 1.9.1. I've been kindly given a copy of 1.9.1 to mirror, however. Years of hard work reached a crescendo today as Yuki Sonoda announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1, the first stable r...

Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts (or Amazon.com link - currently $19.77) is a new Ruby book by Steve Pugh that has just one goal: to share a bunch of "wicked, cool" Ruby scripts in various categories with readers. The publisher is No Starch and they offered to send me a copy for review. First, No Starch Pre...

Note: This post is a part of Ruby Inside’s Top 10 in 2008 series. To learn more or see the other awards, read this introductory post. Giles Bowkett - Controversy, Excitement, and Awesomeness in 2008 Giles simply had to feature in Ruby Inside's Top 10 of 2008 and since there's no Top Crazy Mofo cat...

Note: This post is a part of Ruby Inside’s Top 10 in 2008 series. To learn more or see the other awards, read this introductory post. John Nunemaker - Consistently Good Ruby Blogging in 2008! Rather than unethically considering ourselves or one of our sister blogs (!!), we set out to look for the ...

Note: This post is a part of Ruby Inside's Top 10 in 2008 series. To learn more or see the other awards, read this introductory post. Satish Talim - Ruby Evangelist and Facilitator Satish Talim is an established software development expert (over 30 years of experience in the industry!) based in Pune...

2008 has been an interesting year for Ruby. Some people are going to remember 2008 as a snarky, uncivil year, filled with rants (okay, okay, Zed's infamous rant was the last day of 2007 but he updated it in 2008!), call outs, lay-offs and bitchiness. There has been an increase in negative articles a...