February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
14h
English
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16.3. References
RDoc documentation for Markaby is available at http://markaby.rubyforge.org. Also of interest is the wiki from "why the lucky stiff" at http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/markaby. Haml lives at http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com — see that page for additional documentation as well as information about Sass, which is an output tool aimed at creating CSS files.
Liquid's home page is www.liquidmarkup.org. Bruce Williams and Marcel Molina, Jr. have a great presentation from RailsConf 2007 that discusses all the alternatives listed here and more — slides from this presentation are available at www.codefluency.com/assets/2007/5/18/VisForVexing.pdf.
JRuby's home page is http://jruby.codehaus.org. There's also a wiki at http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/Main_Page. Charles Nutter maintains a blog at http://headius.blogspot.com — watch this blog for announcements and news of new releases. Maven, which is mentioned in the chapter as a tool for managing Java libraries, can be found at http://maven.apache.org. There's already a book, Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java, written by Ola Bini and published by Apress (www.apress.com/book/view/9781590598818), and I believe another one is forthcoming.
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