Misc - Ruby off the Rails

Ruby on Rails is just one facet of what makes Ruby great, just like EJB is only part of the Java? enterprise platform. Andrew Glover digs beneath the hype for a look at what Java developers can do with Ruby, all by itself.

Before I can even begin this article, I need to clarify something. First, this is not an article about Ruby on Rails. [...] Second, this article does not foretell the collapse of the Java platform in the face of better languages, tools, and frameworks like Ruby on Rails. So this article is about neither of the subjects most commonly associated with Ruby of late.
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