Is Ruby already shaping up to succeed Java? What's broken with Java that Ruby fixes? And are the two mutually incompatible? An interesting article on the future of Ruby. More info

Ruby on Rails reached 1.0, get downloading! More info

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While the SitePoint crew were busy sunning themselves by the pool on our annual Xmas trip, the Rails core team packaged up version 2.0 of the Ruby on Rails framework and released it on the world. I expect the team probably had a fairly stressful weekend putting out a few fires (understandable given this is [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=2137b35e8ae39a7fd8c984941e499a47" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=2137b35e8ae39a7fd8c984941e499a47" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info