A bug that was fixed in January is still plaguing some Ruby on Rails coders. Hackers are hooking servers up to a botnet controlled through IRC.
"It's a critical part of the Ruby infrastructure," the programmer said. "Everything depends on RubyGems."
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BritRuby is canceled due to allegations of discrimination, sexism, and racism in selecting the speaker lineup.
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Github, the service that many professional programmers use to store their work and collaborate on coding, was hacked over the weekend. A young Russian named Egor Homakov showcased a loophole in Github that would allow anyone to commit to the …
Salesforce announced today that it has acquired Heroku, which develops and deploys web-based applications that rely on the programming language Ruby on Rails, for $212 million as part of its Cloud 2 suite of cloud applications. The company made the …
Powerset is a quixotic search engine company here in San Francisco that has convinced itself it can take on Google.
While Powerset gears up to release its search engine publicly later this year, it hopes to nurture an army of …
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