The Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (a.k.a. railstutorial.org ) by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps. Michael has put together a great Rails 2.3 tutorial, releasing it all for free online chapter by chapter. Now, Michael's going three steps further:
1 — A new, Rails 3.0 focused version. The free online book covers Rails 2.3, but Michael's updated it to cover Rails 3.0. He's …
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- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 6-22-10
We'd like to invite you to RubyConf Uruguay , which will take place this October on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th, in Montevideo. This will be a single-track conference aimed at developers who want to learn or get up-to-date with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Testing, SCRUM, JavaScript, SQL vs NoSQL, etc.
If you're interested in speaking at this event, we'll be happy to accept your proposals
RubyConf Uruguay organizers
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- Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: See You At The Hackfest!
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Refinery CMS is an open source Ruby on Rails CMS for small businesses. The project was originally closed source for 4 years at Resolve Digital until it was finally released to the open source community in mid 2009. Refinery focuses on doing things "the Rails way" where possible. This means you don't have to learn too much to start theming it and building your own custom plugins.
What it's it good at?
- MicroISV on a Shoestring: SEO for Software Companies
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- Lee Munroe: How To Setup A Reusable Framework For Your Next Website
- Trevor Turk: Static: a super simple Rails CMS for Heroku
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This is a guest opinion piece by Xavier Shay.
Ruby on Rails, by its own admission, is an opinionated framework. From day one it has positioned itself as the Kryptonite to enterprise software, providing an easy to use, rapid development framework. The infamous 15 minute blog video set a tone which has continued through to this day: if it's not quick to build and in Ruby, we're not interested.
Rails takes an extreme viewpoint, the polar opposite of the XML heavy, …
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…hope they find this. I'll post it, but it's not my priority. In fact, I'm annoyed at Peter Cooper for tweeting about it; otherwise I would have made it through the day without visiting either Reddit or Hacker News, and days like that do me better in terms of productivity than this other kind of day.
I'm going to suggest that Zed Shaw has a marketing problem. If you read the following text carefully, you may be able to find hidden clues as to what that marketing problem …
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- Rails Envy » Home: Reports of This Podcasts Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
…podcast started? I did more self-promotion! hehe.. Here's a blog article Peter Cooper did on the podcast. He didn't write that on his own mind you, he wrote it because we emailed him about it! (see a pattern here?) We almost always had sponsors for the podcast to help pay for our time, and again, sponsors didn't come to us, it was just a matter of taking the time to email out the right people (people who had something to advertise to Ruby / Rails developers). …
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"Everything is an object" was one of the first things I learned about Ruby, but in Peter Cooper's Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional book, it is mentioned that " almost everything in Ruby is an object".
Can you give me some examples of things that are not objects in Ruby ?
The answer is :
he most obvious one that jumps into my head would be blocks. Blocks can be easily reified to a Proc object, either by using the &block parameter form …
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- Phusion Corporate Blog: Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-20090928 released
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Elad Meidar's bag o' links
David Trasbo's L33T LINKS
Peter Cooper's rubyflow
I watch a bunch of tags in my delicious aggregator, URLAgg .
Occasionally I'll see something of note pass by on twitter, though I have to be watching one of my lists to see it, otherwise there's just too much noise.
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- Wynn Netherland: Rubyists I'm thankful for this year
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This is not at all what Peter Cooper looks like. Peter wears glasses.
Peter does actually set a challenge after the dungeon exercise to make it really interactive. Also, he finishes the chapter by saying he'll assume I have a knowledge of how classes and objects work, and how the different scopes of variables work. Well... I kinda got it when I read it, but I couldn't tell it back to you now - I don't remember!
So, should I stop here and go through Chapter 6 a few more …
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- Travis Dunn: Tools of the Trade 2009
- Labnotes: Tools of the trade
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #632
…vying for the prizes and some are participating for the fun of it.
In the competition
Just for Fun
Previous Challenge
RPCFN: Mazes (#5) by Peter Cooper.
Note : All the previous challenges, sponsors and winners can be seen on the Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies page.
The (#7) challenge by James Edward Gray II, USA is scheduled for 1st Mar. 2010.
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Broadsides (#7)
- RubyLearning Blog: Guillaume Petit Winner RPCFN #6
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #081: 06/05/2009
- Lance: Reflections on Ruby
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- Khaled alHabache's official blog: StackOverflow cool Ruby questions