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The company website contains a full report by one of the Ruby/Rails developer on the rad race in English:
http://www.finalist.com/nieuws_full.php?id=94
But still… no official results!

In a previous post I mentioned two Finalist teams participating in the RAD Race event. The following post (Dutch!) contains the comments of the Ruby/Rails team on the ir results:
http://rubyenrails.nl/articles/2006/02/27/rad-race-nog-niet-gewonnen
Seems Ruby/Rails did very well! We’ll have to wait another month for final results… I’ll keep you posted!

After finding out about technorati (from the site: Technorati is the authority on what’s going on in the world of weblogs) by clicking the icon on the railsguru site I discoverd something really neat.

In my previous post I mentioned a lack of tooling support for ruby. It seems I might have been wrong! When looking for a Ruby synthax highlighting plugin for eclipse I found Radrails.
RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with [...]

Today the serverside featured a post with the eye-catching title ‘Java: Dead Like COBOL, Not Like Elvis?‘
The interview linked from the post is pretty negative about Java and Ruby on Rails is mostly used as an example of how stuff could be done better. Well…. I really think they are comparing apples and oranges.
Alltough [...]

Gruff is a charting library for Ruby which can be used alone or with Ruby on Rails. I tried using it a couple of times, but couldn’t get it to work. The error was non-informative at best:

uninitialized constant Gruff (NameError)
NoMemmoryError

After going over the following steps:
1. build and installed ruby 1.8.4 from source
2. downloaded ruby-zlib-0.6.0 and [...]

Tonight I attended the Ruby workshop presented by two of my colleagues. It was a bit more advanced than generating Rails stuff and focussed on interesting Ruby features like:

mixins
closures
operator overloading
usage of the missing method method
breakpoints
unit and functional testing
a bit of ajax (got to have it in your Ruby and Rails examples)
migrations

The presentation was code heavy [...]

This year two teams of the company I work for will join the RAD Race contest. Specifically nice about this is that one of the teams will use Java/JAG ( JAG started off life as an internal java focused RAD tool, now available under a GPL license on sourceforge) and the other team will use [...]