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With a nod to this post from Cal Evans, I’m presenting my own “Top Three” posts from 2011, in order of descending popularity:

Over on the ruby-talk mailing list, Yuki "Yugui" Sonoda announced the release of Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1:

My previous post about using Silex and AppServer-in-PHP similarly to ExpressJS generate quite a bit of interest.

In the Hacker News thread there was a question about memory usage, and so I put the AppServer under siege.

Memory usage stayed constant at:

Alexey Zakhlestin has a new post today with some of his own thoughts on the suggestion for a built-in web server (RFC) that's been floating around lately - a tool that would act as a simple server right out of the box without much in the way of configuration.

TechCrunch reports that Salesforce.com is to acquire the popular Heroku Ruby app hosting service for approximately $212 million in cash.

In "So You Want To Be a Ruby Dev" Kevin W Gisi presents a tongue in cheek narrative of a new Ruby developer being guided through the choices they have to make.

(It's being discussed on Hacker News too - some good comments there.)

He asks a lot of questions: Which Ruby implementation to use?

Which Web framework? Which Gems? Which version of Rails should you use? Which database adapter? And he caps it off with a conclusion of sorts: