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Tag Archives: Ruby
JRubyConf
Post by Luke Bredeson
Jun
1
2012
The 4th Annual JRubyConf held last week in Minneapolis was a huge success. The conference kicked off Monday by hosting Getting Started with JRuby, Intro to Neo4j, and RailsBridge workshops. This was a great way to start the conference and … Continue reading
JRuby Conf Sponsorship
Post by Matt Bjornson
Apr
19
2012
We’re very excited to sponsor JRubyConf this year. We are big believers in fostering and growing the technology community and it’s great to have a conference like this held in Minneapolis. The other reason we are excited about sponsoring is … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, community, Software Development
Tagged JRuby, JRubyConf, JVM, Rails, Ruby
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Grails: The Clear Java Framework Winner
Post by Ben Edwards
Jan
10
2008
Application Architect for ThoughtWorks, Neal Ford comments on the homebrew (or what he calls craptaculous) framework and what he thinks of Grails as it approaches 1.0: Which suggests a clear new front runner in the Java world: Grails. Because it … Continue reading
With Power Comes Responsibility
Post by Scott Vlaminck
Nov
16
2007
Last night’s panel discussion “The Language Debate” hosted by OTUG was fun. There was a lot of good discussion both during the panel and after the event. Charles Nutter, Robert Fischer, and Paul Cantrell were all great panelists. One thing … Continue reading
Posted in Software Development
Tagged code, community, discussion, groovy, languages, Ruby
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Dynamic and Static Language Smackdown!
Post by Scott Vlaminck
Nov
14
2007
Thursday, Thursday, THURSDAY! At the O’Shaughnessy Science Hall! See your favorite dynamic language take on the statics! Ok, actually, The Object Technology User Group is hosting a panel discussion titled “The Language Debate: Panel Discussion on Dynamic and Static Type … Continue reading
Refactr Intrview Series: Marc Palmer
Post by Ben Edwards
Oct
2
2007
This post is the first in a series of interviews of people we find interesting that we will post here on Refactr. We asked some questions of British software consultant, Marc Palmer, regarding his experiences working for Enotions Ltd. on … Continue reading
Posted in Software Development
Tagged grails, groovy, interview, languages, people, Rails, Ruby
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Upcoming: Groovy/Grails Users meeting
Post by Ben Edwards
Jul
6
2007
Coming off a presentation of Grails to the Ruby Users of Minnesota, Scott will be presenting again, this time on Acegi Security – a powerful, flexible security solution for enterprise software, with a particular emphasis on applications that use Spring. … Continue reading
minnēbar is blowing up
Post by Ben Edwards
Apr
18
2007
With over 300 participants and growing, I am glad we have the space to hold everyone at this year’s event. Now feeding them, that may be another story. Refactr will be representing a number of things at this year’s barcamp … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
Tagged (un)conference, 37signals, conference, convention over configuration, grails, groovy, minnebar, Rails, Refactr, Ruby
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Grails vs Rails performance
Post by Jesse O'Neill-Oine
Mar
23
2007
Graeme has taken the time to respond to some of the comments floating about in the blogosphere about the performance of Grails vs Rails. This benchmarking comes out very favorably for Grails. In nearly every case, the requests per second … Continue reading
Ruby on Grails?
Post by Scott Vlaminck
Mar
12
2007
Graeme responds to Charles Nutter’s thoughts on using the Ruby language (instead of Groovy) with the Grails framework. I think that Charles has some good points, but I agree with Graeme. With the resources available, let’s focus on continuing to … Continue reading
