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The Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook by Jeremy McAnally

r3ug.pngRails expert Jeremy McAnally (Ruby Inside's "Top Hitter" of 2008) has been interested in Rails 3 for a long time, and he's dropped a lot of time into producing the Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook, a $12

Rails 3 Beta is Out — A Retrospective

The Rails team has finally released the Rails 3 beta, after more than a year since the Rails and Merb teams started working on this release. You can read all about it at the official Rails blog, but I figured I’d take the opportunity to share my take on the release.

First of all, you’re probably sick of hearing this, but we’ve done far, far more than we ever expected. A lot of that happened in the last few weeks.

Saving Microsoft Office Documents as PDFs

A recent discussion in the Ruby Forum reminded me that it is possible with Microsoft Office 2007 applications to save a document in Adobe PDF format.

In the Microsoft Word object model, you can call the Document object's SaveAs() method, passing it a filename, and the document will be saved in the default format.


document.SaveAs('c:\temp\MyDocument.doc')

DB2 support for Ruby/Rails turns 2.0

The API development team just released a major version of the ibm_db gem. Detailed installation instructions are available on RubyForge (PDF). Among several improvements, there are three particularly newsworthy features:

TNT Ruby Webservice

The Dutch postal company offers a service that will let companies send physical letters by uploading pdf files. The uploaded file is printed, folded and put into an envelope and sent to the destination.

Our product (Moves) supports this by allowing planners to send letters to their clients with no hassle at all. If you'd like to use this too, you can use our open-source plugin TNTService. You can find it on Github here.

Railssummit Slides

Here are the slides of my presentation at Railssummit 2009. Huge thanks to Locaweb and Fabio Akita for organizing the conference and having me there.

My talk was about Rails focused tips/tricks.

Rails Magazine Issue #4 - Free Download

A new edition of Rails Magazine (#4 – “The Future of Rails”) is now available as a free pdf (32 pages) at http://railsmagazine.com/issues/4

Inside:

Exclusive coverage of Ruby Kaigi 2009, possibly the largest Ruby conference in the world.

Technical articles:
- Background Processing with delayed_job
- Generating PDF with ODF templates
- Oracle Tips and Tricks
- Feel the Radiance with Radiant CMS

Rails Magazine Issue 4 (print edition)

Rails Magazine Issue #4 (“The Future of Rails”) is now available (in print) at http://railsmagazine.com/issues/4

From interviews with Matz, Koichi, DHH and Yehuda, to exclusive coverage of Ruby Kaigi and our regular, in-depth technical articles, this should make a great read for any Rails developer.

The free digital edition (pdf) is well underway and will be available in less than 2 weeks.

Thank you,
Olimpiu Metiu
Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine

Rails Magazine Issue #3 - Free Download

Rails Magazine Issue #3 is now available as a free pdf (52 pages) at http://railsmagazine.com/issues/3

Our best edition so far, this is packed with great technical content, interviews and photography. In this issue:

Rails Magazine Issue 3 - Print Edition Available

Rails Magazine Issue #3 is now available (in print) at http://railsmagazine.com/issues/3

This is our best edition so far, be sure to check it out! It has 52 pages packed with great technical content, interviews and photography.

The free digital edition (PDF) is well underway and will be available in less than 2 weeks.

Thank you,
Olimpiu Metiu
Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine

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