RubyLearning Blog

Here’s a digest of RubyLearning’s best posts for Ruby beginners. These include (with the latest posts first):
Advise:

David Flanagan talks to RubyLearningDavid Flanagan is the author of the book “The Ruby Programming Language”. David says that his book was written to be a definitive book on the language, and is intended for those who want to [...]

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Part 2
Continuing from where we left off in Part 1 of the article - Using ActiveRecord and JDBC with JRuby, let us now create a database called students and a table called rubyists (this holds say, the names and cities of all those who have downloaded my JRuby eBook). To do this, open a command [...]

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O’Reilly Media, Inc. is a strong supporter of RubyLearning.org and recently announced a 50% discount, for the participants of the FORPC101 course, on their book “The Ruby Programming Language” by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto. Satish Talim of RubyLearning recently caught up with David Flanagan who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by [...]

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Preamble
The participants of the FORPC101 series of courses have been requesting me for a small article related to JRuby; so here it is.
In this article, we shall see how easy it is to connect to a database (MySQL) using ActiveRecord and a JDBC driver using JRuby.
Assumptions
I am assuming that you have Java 1.6, JRuby 1.1.3, [...]

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Locaweb is a strong supporter of RubyLearning.org and Satish Talim of RubyLearning recently caught up with Fabio Akita of Locaweb, who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by RubyLearning.
Fabio Akita is a Brazilian Rails enthusiast, also known online as “AkitaOnRails”. He regularly write posts on his own blog and had published [...]

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Morph Labs have been supporting RubyLearning.org for some time now. Satish Talim of RubyLearning recently caught up with Guy Naor (CTO Morph Labs), who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by RubyLearning.
Guy Naor is a veteran of the computing and technology world since 1981. Guy’s technology experience spans evolution and [...]

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I am happy to announce that Locaweb are now the exclusive sponsors of all the Free Online Ruby Programming Courses (FORPC101) at RubyLearning.
All this has been possible due to the tireless efforts of Rails Guru - Fabio Akita.
Locaweb, the pioneer and leader in professional hosting services in Latin America, started-up in 1998 in the “garage” [...]

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On the eve of the new JRuby Course announced by RubyLearning, Satish Talim of RubyLearning caught up with Charles Nutter, who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by the RubyLearning participants.
Charles Nutter has been a Java developer since 1996. He currently works full-time as a core developer on JRuby at Sun Microsystems. [...]

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JRuby is a 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.
Recently, JRuby has been gaining more and more attention in the Java and Ruby communities. Java is a powerful platform and there are millions of lines of Java code being written each month, that the world will have to live with for a long time [...]

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Will Bunker founded the online dating service that became Match.com, the world’s largest personals site. Will designed the software and developed the hardware infrastructure for the site, which grew to 4.5 million monthly unique visitors and annualized subscription revenues of $14 million, outperforming Yahoo Personals and other competitors. In late 1999 they sold One-and-Only to [...]

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