Chances are, you're hip to the Ruby on Rails programming framework by now. Most web developers are familiar with it, and many are full-fledged Ruby initiates. Even if you're not part of the club, ...

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My programming days pretty much ended in the early 90s. At that point, I had some experience with Pascal and was playing around in C, but the dawn of the graphical user interface and my unwillingness ...

The default database for Rails 2.0.x application is SQLite3. This database is bundled with Mac OSX Leopard and so makes it really easy to get started with Ruby-on-Rails. But it requires couple of ...

I have a VM running Linux Mint and have installed RVM and have some tutorials (though for an older version of Ruby) and just want to play around with it and get a feel for setting up something ...

Softcover is a startup offering what it calls a “frictionless” platform for self-publishing e-books. Co-founder Michael Hartl is an author himself, having written the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. (He’s ...

During Rails Conf Europe 2008 Day 1 I attended an excellent tutorial on Deploying and Monitoring Ruby on Rails. The session very clearly explained the several deployment options with Rails. My notes ...