David Bolton Strikes Again

Here are a few important Ruby/Rails links I’ve come across over the last week or so, with commentary:

• The beauty of Ruby – Glen Vandenburg does a good job of explaining the beauty of ruby. I didn’t watch all of it since I wasn’t really learning anything, but points he makes are: great syntax, mixins vs inheritance, OO to the core, and more.
• Mingle – I’ve mentioned Mingle before, but this quick article gives an outline of what it will bring to agile project management. Most notable, it runs on JRuby, and thus on the JVM, which is a great Enterprise proposition.
• Experts or Script Kiddies – Rails will have to fight against the notion that it is a toy scripting language to make it in the enterprise. Luckily there are plenty of reputable Java geniuses who are singing its praises. This article makes some great points about how Rails should be perceived — and refutes many reasons for denigrating it.