Generating a Ruby on Rails app FAST. Better hold on!
I’m going to take a new approach with this article by first showing how quickly a Ruby On Rails application can be created. At the conclusion of this article, I’ll go back and fully explain what we’ve accomplished. To get started, open a PASE shell (i.e. CALL QP2TERM or SSH into your IBM i, as […]
“Momma said I had to share”: Node.js
New Node.js Repo On the topic of Node.js, the Litmis team has started a bitbucket repo so the community has a place to document best practices, contribute code examples, etc. The documentation is on the wiki portion of the repo. The code examples can be seen in the source area. We’ve created an “In The News” section […]
2015 Bold IBM i Predictions
2015 will be marked as the year IBM i took its biggest steps in open source and cloud usage. Ruby on IBM i has been gaining traction this past year and was recently brought out of beta (see n1 footnote). IBM released Node.js just a month ago – which is getting some good attention. On IBM’s […]
Investing in Ruby or RPG…Can I just talk to Chuck?
Well I’m not Charles Schwab, so the answer is unfortunately no, you can’t talk to Chuck! While I’m admittedly no expert on stock investments, I do have a few thoughts when it comes to assessing future viability of programming languages. But before I digress, a short personal bio is in order for you to gain some […]
Krengeltech joins IBM with xmlservice Ruby gem
The Krengeltech Litmis Team and IBM recently partnered to jointly maintain the xmlservice Ruby gem. We will be hosting the code and documentation on our Litmis Bitbucket account and are beyond excited! Benefits for the IBM i community will be huge. Does this mean we “own” the xmlservice gem? No. We are only stewards. We are expecting and […]
RubyGems in your Development Toolbox
In part 2 of our series, we learned about the Ruby community and introduced RubyGems. Now we get to dive further into the many benefits available within gems for developers! Note sure what RubyGems is? For review, here is the Wikipedia definition: RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard […]
The Community Ruby Brings to IBM i
When PowerRuby was first introduced in October of 2013, I penned the following quote for the announcement: There’s something special going on with Ruby and Rails. Never before has there been such coordinated community efforts to efficiently produce reusable code (aka gems) in such open and social fashions. Coding is fun again. We want to […]
Convention over Configuration. Say What?
The Ruby on Rails mantra is known to favor “Convention over Configuration”. What does that even mean? Coding is more simple? More efficient? Easier to maintain and scale? How does convention over configuration apply to a developer? An I.T. Director? Why should I adopt a convention over configuration mindset? From an RPG Mindset Coding green […]
SOAP, WSDL, HTTP, XSD? What the?
Man alive, this web services stuff is confusing! This article was originally posted on our RPG-XML Suite product website. Every time I turn around, I hear about a new acronymn that is supposed to somehow fit into the so-called next generation of communication. The number of acronymns and concepts related to web services can seem diabolical […]
Use Apache JMeter to test RPG-XML Suite performance
Aside from people wanting to know how easy it is to offer a web service using RPG-XML Suite, another question we get is, “How well does it perform”? Of course the answer to that is “it depends” 🙂 It depends on the size of your machine. It depends on how big a workload your machine […]