Installations Made Easy with BitNami Stacks

BitNami stacks make it incredibly easy to install your favorite open source software. Application stacks include an open source application and all the dependencies necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL and PHP or Ruby.

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Groovy: An Agile Dynamic Language for the JVM

According to James Strachan, expert group lead and Groovy co-founder (with Bob McWhirter), Groovy started with a desire for an alternative to javac, which had the power and expressiveness of Ruby/Python but generated regular Java classes (at runtime or build time) and that worked directly with Java classes without some other layer.

Groovy is like a super version of Java. It can leverage Java’s enterprise capabilities but also has cool productivity features like closures, builders and dynamic typing. If you are a developer, tester or script guru, you have to love Groovy.

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Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

While it certainly makes no attempt to constitute a complete guide to the Ruby language, this tutorial will introduce you to some of the basics of Ruby.

Snakes and Rubies at DePaul University

On December 3, 2005, Ruby and Python developers from Chicago and vicinity gathered at DePaul University to hear two of the leaders in rapid web-application development debate the merits of each other’s frameworks:

Adrian Holovaty, one of the creators of the Django framework for Python, and David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails framework, answered questions about their work and the future of Web-application development.