Who owns an open source project? – RubyGems threatens to split

In the open source world, the popular programming language Ruby is experiencing a fierce controversy over critical ...

Kicked from RubyGems, maintainers forge new home at Gem Cooperative

A team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible with RubyGems.
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Ruby On Rails Framework Adds AJAX Tools In Major Update

The star addition to Rails 1.1 is RJS, which enables JavaScript calls in Ruby code and simplifies AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)-style programming. Tasks that previously required more ...
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Ruby hailed as economic solution, offering smaller investment and less risk

Advocates for the Ruby programming language on Wednesday hailed its usefulness as an enterprise application development option, especially in a down economy. The Merb framework for Ruby also was ...
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Merb framework offers alternative to Rails

Today EngineYard announced the first major release of its free open source framework, Merb. According to EngineYard, Merb is designed for building fast, high performance Ruby applications. Similar to ...
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RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project

Long-time contributor Ellen Davis steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance dispute A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Davis (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby ...