The latest release of IronRuby (1.1.1) includes Visual Studio integration! From the release notes: The integration includes Ruby colorizer and syntax checker interactive loop window directory based project templates for common Ruby applications (including Ruby on Rails 3, Sinatra, Gems and Silverlight...
Why is Ruby on Rails all the rage at the moment, and why do a lot of .NET people seem so defensive? Undoubtedly, there is a buzz in development right now, things are changing rapidly, possibly more rapidly than they have for a good number of years. New languages are sprouting up all over it seems, with...
After a successful first Chicago Code Camp last year, we're back to announce the second edition of this unique technical event. The Chicago Code Camp 2 will happen on May 1 st . In this event we are addressing one obvious and recurring feedback: Make it closer to the city . We're thrilled to...
I haven't mentioned our meetings here in a while but our group has been going strong and enthusiastic all this time. Tomorrow, March 10 th our topic will be build scripts for .Net projects using Rake and Albacore. I've been using Rake and a little bit of Albacore in my own projects and I'm...
As soon as I started learning Ruby, a few years ago, I got immediately hooked on its Range class. I could not believe I had been programming in .NET without them for so long. I like to think of range objects as the specification for a for loop, packaged in an object that can be passed around. That's...