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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 ...

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A framework for developing Web applications, Ruby on Rails uses the object-oriented Ruby language and a model-view-controller pattern, which keeps the various chunks of functionality in the ...

We’ll use the Rails app from before, inspecting it immediately after boot. JDI provides a number of ways to connect up to a running VM, using VirtualMachineManager; you can either have the debugger ...

such as Ruby on Rails debugging, Mac OS X support, and multilingual input method editor (IME) support for non-Western languages. “Until now, Ruby developers haven’t had a professional IDE for writing ...