"Ruby 1.9.1-p129 has been released. This is a patch level release for Ruby 1.9.1. This fixes many bugs and two security vulnerabilities. This release contains security fix so we recommend all 1.9.1 users to upgrade your ruby..."

"The problem with the Ruby on Rails community isn’t simply sexism, unprofessionalism, or ghetto-ism, but that Rails is, at its core, a culture which values individual ego more than community..." -- N.B: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs

Rails is a web development framework written in the Ruby language. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making several assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. It allows you to write less code while accomplishing more than many other languages and frameworks. Longtime Rails developers also report that it makes web application development more fun.

"A short screencast demonstrating the use of Rinari (an Emacs minor-mode for rails development).

"Bringing Rails and Merb together is about more than just merging the respective code. We’re also picking up the best ideas from both communities beyond the code. Following on Merb’s success in offering a strong evangelism effort, we’re pleased to announce the creation of the Rails activists: ..."

"The Pragmatic Programmers recommend learning a new programming language every year. I thought for a long time that this was a good idea, but didn't really act on it. Instead I'd dabble in a dozen languages a year. While this has built my intuition as to what various languages are like it has not made me a competent programmer in a new language.

"Richard has okayed adding Ruby-mode to CVS, and I've done so. I made a few changes with respect to Phil Hagelberg's version at github: ..."

"Hello fellows. I'm in the process of submitting ruby-mode.el and inf-ruby.el to Emacs and ELPA. I've made some pretty wide-sweeping changes to inf-ruby.el to make it conform a little more closely to Emacs coding conventions, and I've made a few changes to ruby-mode.el as well..."