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How Ruby can enable the Web 2.0 Platform – The Web as platform, and Ruby as a language for that platform.

Even if you’re part of a big company that is generally immune to the latest trends, the marriage of Ruby and the Web-as-platform may be something to prepare for. It could even displace your SOA agenda…

How To Create a Ruby On Rails Blog – Part One – Using Visual Studio as your RoR IDE.

…in order to generate this application it is necessary to switch many times between standalone text editors, database tools, file managers, web browsers and command prompts. Ruby In Steel can greatly simplify this by integrating the entire development process into Visual Studio.

Even if you don’t care for Visual Studio, this tutorial contains links to some other useful resources.

The Community is Red, Wizardry is Blue – The real reason for the success of RoR.

If you were to go onto the Ruby on Rails IRC, at irc.freenode.net, #rubyonrails, you will find at any time of the day or night, no less than 500 developers, conversing. These developers are asking and answering Rails questions, at amazing speed and in astonishing numbers, in real time. My mailbox is filled daily with digests of Rails mailing list activity. This is a very active, friendly and helpful community.

This is the real key to the power of Rails. Rails is a Web 2.0 technology, if there is such a thing, eating its own dog food in a big way.

SoftwareTesting:Watir and Firefox – Need to do some testing outside Windows? Keep an eye on this space.

FireWatir is a port of Watir to the Mozilla framework. By leveraging JSSh and Ruby, it enables Mozilla client-developers to unit-test their Mozilla clients over local and remote TCP/IP connection.

FireWatir, one intuitively feels, is our one best hope.

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