What is an “Appliance”?
In this context, an appliance is a ready-to-run virtual machine. No set up to speak of required.
But why? Isn’t it easy to install Ruby wherever you like?
That is very true.
However, the Ruby ecosystem is very *NIX centric. Not everyone has the luxury, or time or ability, to setup and maintain a [...]
I’m used to being shafted as a Ruby and Windows user. The Ruby community is quite *NIX centric.
Speaking of which: Praising “open” and using Macs, makes a hypocrite at best, and an idiot at worst. Use OpenSolaris, *BSD, or Linux if you want to be open in spirit. Or, like me, stop bothering, and use [...]
I just read an article about a testing framework called “Cucumber” (In moments like this I hate the creativity of the Ruby community. Explain this to your boss, sometime..), on the Giant Robots Smashing into Giant Robots blog.
The article, which is un-surprising good in the technical aspect, claimed that the testing framework is able to [...]
No, really. Without J2EE, I wouldn’t have access to Glassfish, with its wonderful autodeploy directory to, well, autmatically delpoy applications on it.
Without Java, I wouldn’t be able to use JRuby.
And neither would I be able to use Warbler to create .war-files for drag and drop deployment.
In the span of 30 minutes (half of which is [...]
