This should be a great Christmas present for many of you. After over three years, the “ruby-debug” gem finally installs properly on JRuby. ~/projects/jruby gem install ruby-debug Successfully ...

If you’ve got a minute, you’ve got enough time to find bugs in your Ruby on Rails-based Web application. It’s not because you’re necessarily oh so adept at debugging your own code (though you may be), ...

CodeGear announced last week that it has released a new version of 3rdRail. The product is a Ruby on Rails integrated development environment that plugs into Eclipse. It's currently available at ...

The increasing popularity of dynamic languages has given rise to a growing arsenal of development tools tailored to developers using languages like Ruby, PHP, and Python. So widespread is the array of ...

The past few months, I've covered a number of automated testing systems available to Ruby programmers in general and Rails developers in particular. Automated testing, especially when you use it ...