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• InfoWorld review: Heroku cloud application platform

  Heroku is a pure platform as a service -- that is, the entire infrastructure is managed by Heroku and not by you. As such, deploying a Ruby application, whether or not it is Rails based, is practically effortless. Deployment, in fact, is performed as a part of a regular SCM (software configuration management) sync via Git, an innovative, freely available, and quite popular distributed source code management system pioneered by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

• InfoWorld review: Engine Yard Cloud

  Although code deployment might not be as easy with Engine Yard as with Heroku, the Engine Yard platform is dramatically more tunable. In fact, in many ways, Engine Yard is closer to an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) than a platform as a service (PaaS). Engine Yard provides a base infrastructure tuned to run Ruby applications, but the rest is up to you. Engine Yard does offer Git integration; however, deployment is not executed via a push, as in Heroku, but rather via Engine Yard's suite of tools and its extensive dashboard, which can sync with a Git repository.

• Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku

  In the world of Ruby development, there are two primary cloud-based, platform-as-a-service offerings: Engine Yard and Heroku. Both provide an easy-to-scale, managed hosting environment, both are built on Amazon EC2, and both have a long and intimate history with the Ruby community. Nevertheless, they offer contrasting approaches and features that will appeal to different audiences.

• Heroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds

  Platform-as-a-service cloud vendors Heroku and Engine Yard have been branching out to accommodate more developers by backing more programming languages.

• Ruby creator sets sights on mobile

  The open source Ruby language, founded by developer Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and released in 1995, has become a staple among programming languages.

• NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing

  Citing low usage trends and a priority on Java, builders of the NetBeans IDE have killed off Ruby on Rails support in a planned upgrade, the NetBeans community announced on Thursday.

• Rebuilt Realestate.com.au ramps up Ruby on Rails

  Property portal Realestate.com.au has been re-engineered from the ground up with its legacy Perl codebase being replaced with Java and Ruby on Rails.

• Rubinius Ruby language variant gets an upgrade

  Rubinius, an implementation of the Ruby programming language featuring enhancements for JIT (Just In Time) compilation and garbage collection, is being upgraded Friday, gaining improvements in debugging, memory usage, and performance.

• Ruby on Rails 3.0 now available

  Ruby on Rails 3.0, an upgrade to the popular open source Web framework that features a merger with the Merb framework, was released Sunday, the founder of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, said in a blog.

• Engine Yard expands Rails apps cloud services

  Engine Yard will extend on Thursday its services for cloud-based services for Ruby on Rails applications, giving users the option to deploy on Terremark infrastructure.

• Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

  Ruby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms.

• Older Ruby line gets new maintainer

  Engine Yard, which has offered services for the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails, has taken over maintenance responsibilities for an older release of the language.

• Rails called enterprise-ready

  Ruby on Rails is enterprise-ready. No joke.

• Rails founder touts framework stability, responds to critics

  Reflecting on six years of working on the popular Ruby on Rails Web development framework, Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson stressed Tuesday that the platform has held to its fundamental principals while accommodating changes.

• Rails 3 to add security enhancement

  Although developers of the Ruby on Rails Web framework will miss this week's target date for offering a preview release of Rails 3, the framework's founder will be touting planned capabilities, such as a major security enhancement, during a conference on Tuesday.