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The Rubyist: June Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of June. The month of June saw a lot of articles, interviews, and video from RailsConf 2008. The big excitement from RailsConf was news of MagLev, a ruby implementation built on top of a Smalltalk VM. Other big news items to in the Ruby sphere was several security concerns. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog.

Scaling and Security

• Fear and Loathing at RailsConf
• My Mixed Feelings about Ruby
• Rails 10x more productive, Scala 2x. Really?
• Rails can’t scale alone
• Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby
• Multiple Ruby security vulnerabilities
• The Big Ruby Vulnerabilities
• Did Rails Sink Twitter?

RailsConf and RubyConf

• Enlightenments from RailsConf 2008
• The Mega RailsConf 2008 Round Up
• 37signals RailsConf 2008 Interviews
• RailsConf 2008 - Saturday Evening Summary
• RailsConf 2008 - Friday Evening Summary
• MagLev
• MagLev - Ruby that scales
• MountainWest RubyConf 2008

News and Announcements

• The Rails Documentation App
• Acts As Community - Rubyist Unite
• New Free Book: Ruby on Rails 2.1
• Google's OpenSocial with Ruby on Rails
• Ruby TMTOWTDI, Episode 1
• De-smalling the Built-in Shoes Manual

Tools and Tutorials

• Bulk insertion of data with ActiveRecord
• Rails - Simple Asynchronous Processing
• Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails
• Glimmer - Using Ruby to Build SWT User Interfaces
• DataMapper - Ruby Object Relational Mapper
• Building a Ruby on Rails application in a week
• Setting up a Rails 2.0 Project without a Database
• PoolParty! An Open Source tool for managing EC2 clusters
• Pool Party Gem For EC2 Computing

Opinion

• Java developers should learn Ruby
• 10 must-have Rails plugins
• The evolution of a Ruby programmer
• Coding in java after a two year affair with ruby
• Johnson - Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace.
• Creating a new rails app shouldn't be boring

Jobs

• Ruby Now - The Ruby / Rails Job site
• How not to apply for a job
• How to get a rails job

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