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Michael Hartl’s 15 Hours of Rails 3 Screencasts

5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free!

rbp.pngRuby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O'Reilly) that looks into the "Ruby way" of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically, why Rubyists tend to write Ruby the way they do.

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 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources To Get You Going

rails3logo.gif Whenever something's a really "big deal" in the Ruby world, we cover it - even if it makes more sense on Rails Inside (which is now switching to a user contributions model).

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:

Weekend Free? Join The Rails 3 BugMash And Make A Difference

Rizwan Reza got in touch to let everyone know that a special Rails BugMash takes place this weekend (January 16-17, 2010).. it's a Rails 3 focused BugMash! Fix a known issue with Rails 3.0, report a bug, test some gems or plugins, write some documentation..

Getting A Grip on GridFS

I know it is almost Christmas and your minds are beginning to turn to gifts and family, but hang with me for a few more minutes. My buddy Jon pointed me to Grip yesterday. I liked the idea but not all of the implementation. I’ve been doing some GridFS stuff lately so I decided to take some time and tweak it to be more what I need.

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks

Strong statement, eh? The more I work with Mongo the more I am coming around to this way of thinking. I tell no lie when I say that I now approach Mongo with the same kind of excitement I first felt using Rails. For some, that may be enough, but for others, you probably require more than a feeling to check out a new technology.

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