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Everything I Learned About Open Source Development I Learned From Indie Hip Hop Video Now Online

We’ve just released the video for Everything I Learned About Open Source Development I Learned From Indie Hip Hop from Aloha on Rails, in which Corey Donohoe talks about the striking similarities between open source hacking and indie hip hop. This was one of the most celebrated talks of the conference, we hope you enjoy it!

Coming very soon: The Rails Upgrade Handbook

I’ve been enjoying you guys’ feedback on my Rails 3 posts. I’ve gotten feedback both good and bad, and it’s been really helpful in the big project I’ve been working on, which I’m really glad to finally be able to talk about it a little bit. Most of the content I’ve posted about Rails 3 has been excerpted from my new eBook: The Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook.

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Time.onrails.org is closing!

I just send an email to thousands of users to notify them that time.onrails.org is closing down. I don’t think many of these users are active but just in case I wanted everyone to be able to get their data out of the system if so they wished.

I will turn down the service on March 17th at 9pm.

Unit Testing JavaScript using Qunit . See live result and test code.

If you are in a hurry then take a look at these two links and you are done.

MongoTips: All Mongo, All The Time

So last night I realized that I really love MongoDB. I love it so much that I want everyone to be using it whenever it makes sense (which is quite often). I thought about what I could do to help get the word out more and starting a new site made the most sense (instead of flooding RailsTips with Mongo stuff).

MongoTips is a new blog dedicated to MongoDB news and information. I’ll be posting things there that we have learned building Harmony and anything I can find from the community.

Congratulations Are in Order!

Carl LercheNew Rails Core

Great Lakes Ruby Bash

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April 17th of this year, a lot of good people I know are throwing a conference for the Great Lakes region at Michigan State University (Go Irish!). They currently have a call for proposals open until February 28th.

I’m already on the docket and I have something awesome planned, so whether you want to talk or just attend, I would highly recommend keeping this conference on your radar.

Great Lakes Ruby Bash

The Great Lakes Ruby Bash is now accepting talk proposals. The conference will be held on Michigan State University’s campus in East Lansing, Michigan on Saturday, April 17th.

We’re looking for passionate speakers to give 25 and 40 minute presentations about their experiences with Ruby and related technologies. Our goal is to engage attendees and inspire them to create great software, empower users, and continue learning with others.

Smooth Devoperations: Deploying Rails 3 with Moonshine

Here at Rails Machine, we have written, on occasion, about

Objective-C | Rails Fire

Objective-C

A Free Course on Sinatra

A Free Course on Sinatra
To celebrate the release of Sinatra 1.0 RubyLearning announces the first-ever, free online “Introduction to Sinatra” course starting from 15th May 2010.
Sinatra – quickly create tiny web apps and services

What’s Sinatra?
Sinatra is a micro-framework for quickly creating tiny web-applications and small services in Ruby. It is not a Model-View-Controller (MVC) based framework.

Showcasing RubyLearning’s Awesome Rubyists

Showcasing RubyLearning’s Awesome Rubyists

RubyLearning has been associated with some amazing, talented Rubyists these last 5 years. I am compiling a list (in alphabetical order) showcasing these awesome Rubyists who have either undergone some of the courses at RubyLearning or have been instrumental in taking RubyLearning to the next level.

Aleksey Gureiev Winner RPCFN #4

In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Aleksey Gureiev of Ukraine, winner of the fourth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies.

Aleksey Gureiev

State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance

Ruby is commonly associated with the frameworks (Rails, RSpec, and many others) that it enabled, but it is much more than that. The same ideology and design principles that popularized the language at the start are also the reason why it is being currently ported to a variety of alternative platforms: JVM, Objective-C, Smalltalk VM and Microsoft’s DLR.

About the GitHub Contest

A few days ago, the 2009 GitHub contest ended. I’m currently going through all of the top submissions to verify the winners and look through some of the code used. I’ll post the official winners in a day or two, but in the meantime I’ve replaced the contest home page with a table of many of the entries that were submitted that have their source code online, along with the language and license used in each project.

iPhone Hack Day at Viget Labs

photo.jpgI recently spent a day hanging out with a few of the guys at Viget Labs hacking on the iPhone.  Ben Scofield, the Technology Director at Viget Labs, was leading an iPho

Looking Back at iPhoneDevCamp 3 at Yahoo!


Our Director of Research & Development, Pradeep Elankumaran, and I attended iPhoneDevCamp 3 during the first week of this month. For those of you who haven't heard of iPhoneDevCamp, it is supposed to be setup as an "unconference", sort of a "Barcamp" type of an event, featuring content from the attendees and dedicated time for hacking on your own applications.

How do I learn Ruby & Rails?

This is a question I get quite a lot.

Where should I start? What should I do? What can I do to become a better Ruby/Rails developer etc.. (more common questions)

I wish there was a “simple/right” answer to these questions. Something like: “Read this book and you will become an awesome developer”.
Unfortunately, things are not that simple. We are all different and we learn differently, we also come from different backgrounds.

GitHub Rebase #26

Welcome to Rebase #26! If you’ve got an interesting project you’d like to see on the column feel free to shoot me a message. I’d love to see more themed Rebases, like the book edition. Perhaps we could have a JSON edition, a hardcore C edition, unknown language edition, and so on. I follow some simple guidelines that you can check out here too.

Carlos Gabaldon: How do I learn and master Sinatra?

Welcome to the last installment on the RL blog, of a mini series – “How do I learn and master Sinatra?” – by top Rubyists using Sinatra. The interview series will provide insight and commentary from these notable Sinatra developers, with the goal of facilitating and providing answers to the questions Ruby beginners face on how to learn and master Sinatra.

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