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When I say "Monads aren't difficult, and you are smart enough to understand them," I'm now going to link to

on ruby's technical debt

Elixir is a functional meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM. It is a dynamic language with flexible and homoiconic syntax that leverages Erlang's abilities to build concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant applications with hot code upgrades.

Often, it is more concise to speak Unix than English.

f you've ever needed to produce PDF documents before, in Ruby or another language, you probably know how much it can suck. Prawn takes the pain out of generating beautiful printable documents, while still remaining fast, tiny and nimble. It is also named after a majestic sea creature, and that has to count for something.

had to insall zlib.dll from here to make ruby1.9 work on vista.

Alexi martelli's response

a very good comparion of python and ruby's capabilities

yay emacs!

atom and RSS templates from blinksale

Zed Shaw is an up and coming programmer in the Ruby world. He’s the creator of the popular Mongrel webserver, and is building a reputation for fast, solid, secure code. In this interview, he discusses Mongrel, Ruby, and his path to better code.

Here we will be exploring Ruby On Rails development adventures at work for AWebFactory Customers hosted here on Site5; most content should be of interest to any Ruby on Rails deployments, however.

The Case for Dynamic Languages

Development with Ruby on Rails