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The fifth batch of the Free Online Ruby Programming Course conducted by Satish Talim, starts 3rd May 2008.

Already over 4000+ people from across the
globe, have learned Ruby through this course

Registrations close on 2nd May 2008 - so hurry.

Innobuzz Knowledge Solutions, has Launched a course for Training on Ruby on Rails and hereby it comes the first training company in India to have launched a course on Ruby on Rails.

Testing framework in ruby

I would like to present another case study of the work that I've done for testing on ruby for an MNC client of mine. I won't be disclosing the project details, you all can understand why, but I'll try to explain the different challenges that i along with the team working on the project faced & how we overcome it. So lets start.

One of my client (security product based company) has their product on linux platform. The frontend is web app & can be accessed by using browser & entire system can be configured, monitored & managed using it. Now this was a very big task to automate the testing of the product, as they have 3 product lines & every product has their own settings etc.

The third batch of the Free Online Ruby Programming Course conducted by Satish Talim, starts 7th January 2008.

Already 1560+ people have enrolled for the course from across the globe. Brazil leads the way with over 550 registrations and India in third place with over 125.

Registrations close on 6th January 2008 - so hurry.

David Black the author of Ruby for Rails talks to RubyLearning.com members and gives valuable insights to all the would-be Ruby and Rails developers. He talks about areas in Ruby that one should concentrate on and much more. Do read.

The Ruby programming language was released to the public in 1995 and gained widespread adoption in 2006. A multipurpose language that focuses on simplicity and productivity, it combines the best features of many compiled and interpreted languages, such as easy development of large programs, rapid prototyping, almost-real-time development, and compact code. Ruby is a reflective, dynamic, and interpreted object-oriented scripting language, and JRuby is a Java programming language implementation of the Ruby language syntax, core libraries, and standard libraries.

Siddharth Karandikar has come up with a site paahijen.com, which is basically about Applications in Indian Languages. Read his interview here.

Nag. B is the brain behind Startups.in. Startups.in simplifies the establishment of startups through a collaborative approach that is a win-win situation to all the involved members. I’ve invited Nag to share some of his experiences in this interview.

Recently, JRuby has been gaining more and more attention in the Java and Ruby communities. Java is a powerful platform and there are millions of lines of Java code being written each month, that the world will have to live with for a long time from now. By leveraging Java the platform with the power of the Ruby programming language, programmers get the best from both worlds. You better not ignore JRuby any more!

The number of Ruby on Rails projects coming into India is growing exponentially. Till last year, it was mainly smaller companies who were executing these projects. However, the scenario has changed today with big players like IBM, Google, Thoughtworks, Persistent in the fray.

This has resulted in a growing need for Ruby and Ruby on Rails professionals. The Learning Ruby Job Board caters to the needs of companies looking to hire such professionals as well as professionals looking for such jobs.

I am writing a series of blog posts with respect to 'Setting Up An IT Company In India'. Would appreciate your constructive comments and suggestions.

I have just published an article that explains how one can do Socket Programming in Ruby.

I had been searching the internet for some information on Socket Programming in Ruby, but had not been successful. The article is a result of that. Do send me your feedback on how you found the article.

Yesterday my Learning Ruby site went live and it immediately got picked up by digg.com and del.isio.us. In one day, there were more than 8500+ unique hits.

The site is a free, web-based course in Ruby Programming, along with a live instructor.

Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, better known as “The JRuby Guys”, are joining Sun this month.

Dynamically-typed languages like Ruby are only beginning to be accepted in the software mainstream, and many of the best practices and tools remain to be invented. Sun would like to ensure that the Ruby programming language, in its JRuby form, is available to the community of Java developers. Also, there is a possibility that the Java platform may prove to be an attractive deployment option for existing Ruby applications in certain scenarios.

Ruby for Symbian is exactly that, the Ruby language built for Symbian OS. http://ruby-symbian.rubyforge.org/