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 ...

Introducing JDI The APIs we’ll be using are part of the Java Debug Interface (JDI), a set of Java APIs for remotely inspecting a running application. It’s part of the Java Platform Debugger ...

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 ...

The Ruby on Rails site bills its eponymous project as “Web development that doesn’t hurt.” I’m not really sure what that means, but it certainly sounds good. Further down on the page, it says, “Rails ...