Groupon has just announced its acquisition of Obtiva, a Chicago based Ruby on Rails firm.

We bought a company called Heroku, which offers Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is the fastest growing language on the Web today.

from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff

“Ruby on Rails is a framework,” said John. “It has all the key parts of an application already predefined. This means that a good programmer can look at existing code and understand how it works.”

I believe that Ruby on Rails is on fire because it is the most productive way to build web applications. This is a conclusion that I’ve drawn first hand by building Rails applications for customers for nearly five years.

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[...] an open source “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) from VMware allowing easy deployment of applications written using Spring, Rails and other modern frameworks.

Google’s servers are also SPDY enabled. In other words, if you use Chrome, and you’re using Google services, then many of those pages are not arriving to you over HTTP - you are actually running over SPDY!

We need you to help us organize our jQuery-based application. It’s a streaming pile of unmaintanable crap.

In this tutorial, I’ll go over the code for CloudEdit, an example Backbone.js app backed with Rails that outlines some basic patterns that I’ve used successfully in my Rails Backbone projects.

Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X. Have it serving your apps locally in under a minute.