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• [Ruby on Rails] How does one render html from another web server to a Ruby on Rails app?
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• How to compute distances based on zip codes
• How to Strip Invalid Characters from Filenames
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• How to add information to the Rails logs
• How to Match IPv4 Addresses with Regular Expressions
• Bit fields in Ruby
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A Live Edition for Learning Rails

By Simon St. Laurent
February 17, 2010

One of the best things about Rails is that it's under constant development. With the Live Edition of Learning Rails, the book will be able to track that progress and give beginners better access to the latest and greatest Rails has to offer.

Exploring Rails 3 - Our Free Rails Online Conference, Feb 18 @ 9am PT

January 29, 2010

Rails 3 is taking its final shape, so there's no better time to take a close look at the work that's been done in the past year. Join us for a series of talks on everything you'll need to get started with it — from creating a new application, to upgrading from Rails 2, to the foundation that makes it all possible. Attendance is limited, so register now!

REST and Flex

By Luca Mezzalira
January 13, 2010

In this tutorial we start to work with REST and Flex, are you asking what is and why use REST? So here we are, REST is acronym for REpresentational State Transfer and it helps you to provide services to comunicate...

Four short links: 12 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
November 12, 2009

Fat Free CRM -- open source (Affero GPL) Ruby on Rails CRM system. Bixo -- open source data mining toolkit that runs as a series of pipes on top of Hadoop. Built on Cascading workflow system for Hadoop that hides MapReduce. (via kdnuggets) Andy Kessler's Keynote at Defrag Stank (Pete Warden) -- I'm sorry to hear it, because I...

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