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Ruby Experts

Tony Stubblebine is an Internet consultant and author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference.

Shashank Tiwari is a Managing Partner & CTO at Treasury of Ideas, a technology driven innovation and value optimization company.

Olexiy Prohorenko is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect whose areas of interests include Web software architecture and development of software with frequently changing requirements.

Jim Alateras is an independent consultant specializing in open source and emerging technologies.

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Ruby Answers

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• Parsing fixed-width fields in Ruby/Rails
• How to package a Ruby on Rails application for Java EE
• How to compute distances based on zip codes
• How to Strip Invalid Characters from Filenames
• How to make Test::Unit tests more readable
• How to add information to the Rails logs
• How to Match IPv4 Addresses with Regular Expressions
• Bit fields in Ruby
• How to manipulate numbers with thousand separators using regular expressions
• How Do I Set Up A Relational Database To Use With Rails?

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Ruby News & Commentary

Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Rails in a Nutshell Manuscript Open For Collaboration

By Keith Fahlgren
October 19, 2009

Following hot on the launch of the Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript manuscript three weeks ago, I'm pleased that Rails in a Nutshell, from Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin is now live and...

Personalizing the Learning Conversation

By Simon St. Laurent
May 5, 2009

Twenty years of change are shifting technology from top-down broadcast-model documentation and training to a more conversational approach that shrinks the social distance between teacher and learner, personalizing our experience.

Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access

By Simon St. Laurent
May 5, 2009

Rails? Microsoft Access? Aren't those from different planets? Well, they may have different origins, but their similarities give me hope.

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