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- Connecting to Oracle From Ruby on Rails
- In the Java world, there are two common types of drivers for Oracle: the pure-Java (a.k.a. thin) driver and the native OCI driver. At the time of writing, no pure Ruby driver, similar to Java's JDBC-based thin driver, exists. In order to connect to Oracle, one needs to install the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Ruby On Rails, Driver, Ruby, RubyDBI, Ruby OCI8, Ruby OCI8 Driver, Scripting Languages, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-06-01
Additional Resources
- A Java Developer's Guide to Ruby
- As a Java developer, why should one learn Ruby? Because Ruby's versatility and flexibility complement Java well, and a developer will be a more effective and efficient developer if he or she uses both languages. In fact, the author uses Java, Ruby, and Common Lisp for all the developments and...
- Tags: Java Developer, Java, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2007-04-24
- Ruby on Rails: Building Web Applications Is Fun Again!
- Ruby on Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby. Ruby is an object Oriented scripting language. It is a Model-view-controller, database agnostic, open source.
- Tags: Web Application, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Presentations
- Ruby Cookbook: Code Blocks and Iteration
- In Ruby, a code block (or just "Block") is an object that contains some Ruby code, and the context necessary to execute it. Code blocks are the most visually distinctive aspect of Ruby, and also one of the most confusing to newcomers from other languages. Essentially, a Ruby code block...
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-07-01
- Ruby Cookbook - Web Development: Ruby on Rails
- Ruby on Rails is unquestionably Ruby's killer app. It can take a lot of credit for lifting Ruby from obscurity outside its native Japan. No other programming language can boast a simple web application framework that also has almost all of that language's developer mindshare. This paper demonstrates the principles...
- Tags: Web, Web Application, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-07-01
- Ruby is a serious upstart in Web services
- Minor correctionDHH invented Ruby On Rails, not Ruby invented by Yukihiro Matsumoto.
- Tags: cmcknight@..., Ruby, ruby ruby_on_rails ror rubyonrails, programming, Web, Web service
- Discussion threads 2007-02-04
- Spiceworks: Rapid Ruby, Customer Focus, and Starting a Company
- It is nice to see such project being done with RubyI adopted Ruby as my toolsmith language because of the quick gain in productivity I got from it. Since most of the tools I write have to do with parsing text the clean integration of regular
- Tags: jslarochelle@..., programming, Ruby, Spiceworks
- Discussion threads 2006-12-09
- Ruby on Rails
- Ruby on Rails is a full stack web application framework. It is written in the Ruby programming language. There is growing community since 2004. It is Open source and free.
- Tags: Web Application, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Presentations 2006-03-01
- Five Essentials for Your Ruby Toolbox
- Ruby, the dynamic, interpreted programming language that adopts a pure object-oriented approach, has been gaining popularity among programmers. While many of Ruby's new converts are primarily developing Web applications, Ruby has a great history much of it in Japan as a separate language in its own right. Only recently are...
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Ruby Central Ruby (zip)
- Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks as in Perl. It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable.
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-03-23
- Oracle donates improved database driver for PHP
- Oracle has released a free database driver for PHP that dramatically improves performance for Web-based applications that connect to its flagship database. Oracle Call Interface (OCI8), and the code used to write it, was released to the open-source community at the Zend Conference & Expo. Excerpt...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., PHP, Storage, Scripting Languages, Databases, Hardware, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- More on Ruby on Rails and its momentum
- I mentioned Ruby earlier this week, now eWEEK has a new article on the adoption of Ruby on Rails and the momentum that RoR is building. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-11-02
- Ruby Intermediate Retail Edition (exe)
- Ruby collects information concerning sales, customers, inventory, and disbursements. From these data, Ruby prepares a number of reports that can be filtered to suit the needs of the user by various dates, inventory category, and other criteria. Ruby comes with many handy accommodations built in. Payments on a sales document...
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Taxes, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-07-14
- Ruby is a serious upstart in Web services
- Ruby on Rails RoR is a Web dev framework that was not created by Microsoft or Sun or even a big group of open source developers. Ruby was created by one guy, David Heinemeier Hansson of Copenhagen, Denmark. Nevertheless, this little framework is gaining momentum among some developers for its...
- Tags: Web, Ruby On Rails, Web Service, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
- Build a Wiki System With Rails
- The Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails Rails for short web application framework have created a lot of buzz in the software programming industry and for good reason. While Ruby has been around for more than a decade, the Rails framework is relatively new but it is becoming a...
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Wiki, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Online Communications
- White papers 2007-04-04
- 10 Minutes to Your First Ruby Application
- As Ruby is primarily an object-oriented language with classes and objects, one can jump right in and create a class to encapsulate behavior. Ruby is primarily a text-based, command-line-oriented language. Some GUI libraries are available, as well as multiple Web application frameworks, but exploring GUI development with Ruby is beyond...
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Is it time to abandon Java for Ruby? Identify when and where the switch makes sense, and how to make it
- Developers often struggle beneath Java's mountains of complexity, even though the project might not need Java at all. In contrast, Ruby offers incredible productivity, surprising performance, and ultimately developer satisfaction. But how can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? If you're succeeding with...
- Tags: Ruby, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Java, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters 2007-03-20
- Enable information interchange across enterprise applications by generating XML documents with Ruby
- Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. These run on heterogeneous operating systems and hardware, use databases and messaging systems from various vendors, and were written in different programming languages. Exchanging data between such systems, processes, components, and companies has always been a...
- Tags: XML Document, Ruby, Enterprise Application, Scripting Languages, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-09-19
- RubyStack (exe)
- An installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Ruby on Rails and its runtime dependencies. Ruby on Rails is a full-stack MVC framework for database-backed Web applications that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. BitNami RubyStack application...
- Tags: Ruby, BitNami, BitNami RubyStack, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- Work with strings in Ruby
- In this sample chapter from The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition, master all the important operations that a programmer might want to perform on a string, such as concatenation, searching, extracting substrings, tokenizing, and much more. See how to iterate over a...
- Tags: String, Ruby, Addison-Wesley, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-05-31
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