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Dogs and Cats Living Together

IntelliJ’s plugin for Ruby is out at a 0.1 release. The screenshots look promising, wish I had a copy of IDEA 6.0 around to try it out.
Speaking of Ruby and Java, the JavaPosse guys did a nice interview with Charles and Tom from the JRuby team. I don’t think anyone even said […]

Ruby on Rails for Java Programmers - PDF finally uploaded

About seven months I did a presentation for the various Wisconsin Java User Groups introducing Ruby and Rails to Java programmers. It was a nice, friendly presentation comparing code between Ruby and Java, and I had some fun discussions with some of the attendees looking to sneak Ruby into their Java shops.
When I posted […]

The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition, and a gotcha

This review of the The Ruby Way, Second Edition mentions one of Ruby’s fun little corners. To illustrate, what is the value of “doop” after this code?

x = true
y = false
doop = y or x

The correct answer is “false” because the “and” and “or” operators in Ruby have lower precedence then the assignment operator. […]

Ruby for Netbeans? Wha Happened?!

Tor Norbye is about the last person I’d guess would be pushing the state of Ruby IDE’s. But he is. If you ever listen to the Java Posse, he doesn’t even seem to like dynamic languages. Or maybe its just that he seems to really like statically typed languages. Maybe they […]

Five Ruby Blogs to Feed Your Head (and Soul)

I subscribe to far too many feeds. I never catch up, and recently somehow blew away my entire “non-ruby programming blogs” folder in NetNewsWire, and didn’t really notice (or care).
That said, I think its important to keep up with the Ruby “blogs”, as kids call them these days, if only because things […]

More on Java/Ruby Communities, or Chill Out: Its Just Code Dude

I think the point of my original post on the java and ruby communities was kinda missed.
Criticism is great for any community, and if you are really passionate about something you should constantly question it and look for crappy things to call out. I agree with that 100%. However, there is a huge […]

The Difference Between the Ruby and Java Communities

Ruby has people like why and Dr. Nic, and blogs like the Rails Blob.
Java has Hani and the Bile Blog.
I know which one I’d rather be a part of.
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What I Want From TextMate…

…is pretty much what Dion says. Ctrl-click on a symbol to jump to the method/class/module/rdoc. I miss that very much from the Java days…now its command-T, open the file, realize its the wrong file…do a search across or project or grep…etc. Refactoring and autocomplete are hard with Ruby, I understand, but getting […]

Evil magic: Getting the name of a method within the method in Ruby (or Java?)

During my dark days of java, I often wanted to be able to reflectively get the name of the method called inside the method in order to log things, inspect things, etc. It was always impossible, at least as far as I knew back then - though in light of new knowledge, I wonder [...]

Ruby on Rails for Java Programmers - Wisconsin User Groups

Tomorrow I'm presenting in Milwaukee and Wednesday in Madison on "Ruby on Rails for Java Programmers". Its going to be a what I hope is a fair comparison between Rails and Java web development, highlighting the sweet spots for Rails and areas where its not currently the best choice.
After these two talks, I think [...]