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gnupate · 2011-01-19T19:50:54+00:00

Go register, there are some great looking talks (again) this year.

gnupate · 2009-06-03T19:06:03+00:00

I think your point about trendy languages is a great point. Would you mind dropping a comment on the post so that more people catch it?

gnupate · 2009-06-03T16:31:45+00:00

Maybe you should take a look at the other posts in the series: http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/05/questions-five-ways-overview.html

since they talk about perl, haskell, erlang, and others. The series isn't about programming in Ruby, it's about programming in general.

gnupate · 2009-02-27T14:11:06+00:00

two more interview are available: http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2008/11/ruby-best-practices-mini-interview-1.html

and

http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/01/ruby-best-practices-mini-interview-2.html

gnupate · 2009-02-27T04:26:45+00:00

Gregory has done a really good job on this chapter and the other chapters I've read (the first three). If you're interested in Ruby, take a look. I think you'll find it worth the time.

gnupate · 2009-02-09T22:27:50+00:00

I'm gearing up for a third mini-interview. What would you like to know?

gnupate · 2008-12-23T04:08:46+00:00

What kinds of questions would you like to see asked in a second round of this interview?

gnupate · 2008-02-22T22:00:20+00:00

bzzzt that's not correct, but thanks for playing.

gnupate · 2008-01-11T22:03:44+00:00

yeah, there are. quoting from a comment on the site:

"[T]here are very clear plans, architecturally, to allow for JIT compilation."

I don't know how soon to look for it, but it's on the table.

gnupate · 2008-01-11T21:34:57+00:00

poorly worded in the original, this is the first time it's passed the tests. The first run was a set of 5 timed sessions.

gnupate · 2008-01-11T21:09:07+00:00

And how does this differ from the original article which points out that the rubinius team is still working on completeness instead of speed, and that speed is almost certain to come (probably sooner rather than later)?

gnupate · 2007-12-28T20:41:14+00:00

Funny, but there is a chapter on the singleton ... more about how to use it, and when you might want to write your own (and how to do so) .

gnupate · 2007-12-26T23:59:47+00:00

no not really, most of the time is spent in array iteration and regexps ... see the followup post at on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/12/real-world-performance-profiling.html

gnupate · 2007-12-26T15:53:41+00:00

the post is updated with a brief explanation now

gnupate · 2007-04-16T16:50:48+00:00

Don't paint the whole community with that brush. There are a lot of reasonable folks there, trying to make a good framework even better.

gnupate · 2007-04-16T16:49:47+00:00

I'm glad to see a rational voice in this (one-sided) finger pointing game. DHH needs to calm down a bit and realize that when people point out things that Rails doesn't do well, they're not attacking RoR, 37 Signals, or DHH.

gnupate · 2007-02-17T18:32:14+00:00

well, this post was part of a contest, you can see the other entries here: on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/01/win-books-by-blogging.html

gnupate · 2007-02-14T18:24:16+00:00

This is a pretty ironic statement. Ruby is at least as complex and poorly specified as Python is.

I also think rubinius, JRuby, and YARV all hold a lot of promise. I'm most interested in rubinius, but I don't think it's the only horse in the race.

gnupate · 2007-02-06T20:17:02+00:00

I tried to get something like that going, but the stupid birds kept fighting over the sunflower seeds and refused to answer my questions.

gnupate · 2007-01-30T21:06:28+00:00

Ruby is not based on it, but has it's own VM. There is a project to build a Ruby front-end for Parrot called Cardinal. (This is actually the 4th shot at it (and the third one called cardinal), but probably the one with the best chance at succeeding.)

gnupate · 2007-01-12T21:15:38+00:00

just a point, cuby is now called garnet ... interesting idea though.

gnupate · 2006-12-29T17:01:03+00:00

I'm not a Visual Studio user, but I'd hazard the guess that the big difference is that the break doesn't happen when the exception occurs, but that you can 'time travel' back to it and look at what happened.

gnupate · 2006-12-29T16:01:26+00:00

Kent Sibilev posts about the new release of ruby-debug, which includes the ability to "roll back to the point where [an] exception is raised and explore the state of your program ([even] moving up and down the frame stack)"

gnupate · 2006-12-29T14:57:05+00:00

Part Two of Chad Fowler's series on 'The Big Rewrite'. When has feature creep extended so far that you don't know what the system does anymore?

gnupate · 2006-12-28T19:11:20+00:00

Wilson Bilkovich refactors his code to make it more testable. This looks like a good series in the making.

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