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Today Mongrel is the defacto Ruby webserver of choice. But a new experimental solution is now available under the name of Thin.
Naraio is an open source product. Naraio is similar to LAMP software, with more packages Apache, Mysql, PHP, Perl, Subversion, OpenLDAP, phpldapadmin, Trac, Ruby, openssl, openssh, and Python. It is excellent both for small and big enterprises. Naraio comes with setup script for easy configuration. Naraio is designed to be small and flexible.
Meta-programming is the writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at compile time that is otherwise done at run time. Check out a Ruby example of writing your own DSL (Domain Specific language).
The general gist is that with a generally lower total cost of development, projects using Ruby and Rails will continue to increase, and even thrive in a recession, ensuring the success of Ruby and Rails developers.
Black Duck says that an analysis of search requests reveals, "Ruby is now the fourth most requested language on Koders.com, after Java, C/C+ and C#." That's interesting information, to be sure, but what does it mean?
Much of Red 4.0 is written in native javascript (so you don’t have to!) and avoides using Red’s Ruby methods inside other methods so the new built-in optimizer can aggressively remove methods you aren’t using. The result is fast and potentially small library to support your own Ruby code.
An Open Source Social Network Platform for Ruby on Rail