Tag Archives: jruby

JRuby, Ruby gem command conflict

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Daniel Roop

I would have to assume that there are plenty of developers out there that want to install JRuby and Ruby on the same machine. There is a tragic flaw with this, the gem command is the same for both. If … Continue reading →

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The JVM is not Java

Posted on February 15, 2008 by Daniel Roop

Is this another rant?….Yes. I apologize for all the rants lately, but hopefully there is some educational value woven throughout my posts, and besides I promised this one. Lets start with a history lesson… In the beginning there was assembly, … Continue reading →

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acts_as_conference

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Daniel Roop

This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend a local conference, acts_as_conference. The conference was described as an event that was focused on Ruby on Rails, but it seemed to be much more focused on Ruby, with Rails in … Continue reading →

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Oracle Using JRuby

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Daniel Roop

In case you didn’t hear this a couple weeks ago, Oracle published their first JRuby on Rails application as a top level domain on oralce. The application is called Mix, and although I am not exactly sure what it does, … Continue reading →

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JVM Language War

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Daniel Roop

Today it seems that certain people have their panties in a wad over a post from Charles Nutter on how to make Ruby syntax look like Groovy syntax. When I first saw Charles’ post I immediately saw it as a … Continue reading →

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If at first you don’t succeed…

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Daniel Roop

Anyone who has been following my blog, probably knows that I have been working on some PoC work with Buildr at my office. Well when it came down to it, my boss and I decided that Buildr just isn’t quite … Continue reading →

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