Awhile back, EMC-owned VMWare bought Springsource, an open source software company that it hopes to can create an easy to use cloud developer environment for both Java and Ruby on Rails.

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It works with Java, Ruby on Rails and Node.js, a new and popular JavaScript-based framework.

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VMware (VMW) specific openings were up 54%, Ruby on Rails and Javascript listings were up 56% and 30%, respectively.

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These PaaS platforms are the middleware between programming code frameworks like Ruby on Rails and the machines that execute that code.

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The Quantopian platform is designed to do for algorithmic trading what Heroku did to make Ruby on Rails faster and easier to build web applications, says Jean Bredeche, cofounder and CTO at Quantopian.

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Ironically, getting into Dev Bootcamp motivated me to give the Ruby on Rails tutorial another try, and once I had a small project in mind to work on, I was able to understand Rails.

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The Ruby on Rails framework has added even more plumbing to speed development of applications that are elegantly designed and can rapidly improve.

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