If you’ve had your hand in Ruby or Rails, you’ve probably heard of Why the Lucky Stiff (aka, _why), an online persona of a programmer who was one of the more influential Rubyists next to Yukihiro Matsumoto (creator of Ruby, aka, Matz) and David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Rails, aka, DHH). As of this afternoon,… Read More
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Mix Listed on Ruby on Rails.org
Over the weekend, David Heinemeier Hansson, affectionately know as DHH, creator of Rails, made updates to rubyonrails.org. One change was the addition of Oracle Mix to the list of production apps running Rails. Check out the list; you’ll probably recognize several of the apps there, and about the middle of the page, below the fold,… Read More
Ruby on Rails and BEA AquaLogic
About 40 minutes ago, Chris Bucchere posted a OpenWorld session proposal on Mix. His session is called “Building Web 2.0 Social Applications in Ruby on Rails using BEA AquaLogic Interaction.” The session will also cover optimizing your application for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). Anyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails on enterprise scale… Read More
JRuby Meetup!
For those of you who are live in the Bay Area (East Bay in particular), I’ll be speaking at the East Bay Ruby Meetup next Tuesday. Here’s the talk abstract: JRuby is fast becoming a solid (and possibly preferred choice) for deploying Rails apps. Rich Manalang from Oracle will talk about how he and a… Read More
JRuby on Rails: Oracle SSO Integration
Laurent reminded me that I promised a write up of how we accomplished the Oracle SSO integration for Mix. So, I’ve created an Oracle Wiki page that has details on how it works. If you have any experience with Oracle SSO and Rails (or is working on a project that requires this), please add your… Read More
Mix President’s Day Release: JRuby 1.1RC2 and a bunch of other stuff!
Since U.S. based Oracle employees don’t get President’s Day off, Anthony and I decided to deploy some new changes while everyone is off enjoying their day off. Actually, that’s not true, we deployed the new Mix changes early Sunday morning. What should have taken 10 minutes lasted 2 hours — it was a big release.… Read More
Mix Rake Stats
Artem Vasiliev asked for the Mix rake stats… here they are: +———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+ | Name | Lines | LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M | +———————-+——-+——-+———+———+—–+——-+ | Controllers | 1825 | 1504 | 22 | 145 | 6 | 8 | | Helpers | 248 | 217 | 0 | 28 | 0… Read More
Let’s Mix
Hi all. Remember me? I used to blog here until of course Paul and Jake buried me with a crazy project that seemed impossible. Anyway, now that it’s out, I can talk about what I’ve been working on since all the fun we had with Connect this Summer. So, far the buzz on Oracle Mix… Read More
JRuby on Rails Application on an Oracle AppServer
Finally, something to blog about! Progress is being made. More to come later…
Are you passionate about Ruby on Rails? We’re hiring!
If you love to build Web 2.0 style applications (preferably using Ruby on Rails), we’re interested in you. We’re a small team inside Oracle that’s focused on applying “2.0” style concepts to our apps and possibly building new enterprise applications. We’re looking for someone who has a strong background with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML,… Read More