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Hi, Does anyone know is there some ruby configurations that can be done to make ruby act a little more like a statically typed language???I love its dynamic nature, but miss the safety that comes from statically typed languages like java??. Cheers in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Ezra, I love merb, especially because it''s keeping the things that Rails does well and improves on things that Rails hasn''t done so well. One of my biggest pain points with Rails has become multi-app integration. A lot of web sites consist of multiple apps (e.g. a core site, a forum, a blog/cms, etc.). Doing this sort of thing is very ugly and inefficient with the current

Hi people, As I stated in a earlier message, I am using Rails on my masters degree and soon I will have to port my application from a relational database (MySql) to a RDF semantic database called Sesame. At first, I thought that I could get away with most of the porting only by writing a decent database adapter, but then, examining AR closer, I could see that it has some strong dependencies

Now I''m a ruby nooby so be gentle... I''ve gotten ActiveLDAP working from the command line, but buggered if I can work out how on earth to integrate an ActiveLDAP object with a bunch of ActiveRecord objects. This is going to be possible right? I''m just going to have to build the whole scaffold myself for these objects? Just thought I''d check whether it

URLS http://rubyforge.org/projects/codeforpeople/ http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/traits INSTALL yes|sudo gem install traits ABOUT traits.rb is set of attr_* like methods on steroids, caffeine, and botox. it encourages better living through meta-programming and uniform access priciples. traits.rb supports smart inheritence of class attributes and a fistful of hooks for