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Ruby Best Practices
by Gregory Brown
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Metaprogramming Ruby
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by Paolo Perrotta
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Security on Rails
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by Ben Poweski, David Raphael
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Grails
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by Dave Klein
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Programming Cocoa with Ruby
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by Brian Marick
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The RSpec Book
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by David Chelimsky, Dave Astels, Zach Dennis, Aslak Hellesoy, Bryan Helmkamp, Dan North
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A Live Edition for Learning Rails

February 17, 2010
One of the best things about Rails is that it's under constant development. With the Live Edition of Learning Rails, the book will be able to track that progress and give beginners better access to the latest and greatest Rails has to offer.
Exploring Rails 3 - Our Free Rails Online Conference, Feb 18 @ 9am PT
January 29, 2010Rails 3 is taking its final shape, so there's no better time to take a close look at the work that's been done in the past year. Join us for a series of talks on everything you'll need to get started with it — from creating a new application, to upgrading from Rails 2, to the foundation that makes it all possible. Attendance is limited, so register now!
REST and Flex
By Luca MezzaliraJanuary 13, 2010
In this tutorial we start to work with REST and Flex, are you asking what is and why use REST? So here we are, REST is acronym for REpresentational State Transfer and it helps you to provide services to comunicate...
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November 12, 2009
Fat Free CRM -- open source (Affero GPL) Ruby on Rails CRM system. Bixo -- open source data mining toolkit that runs as a series of pipes on top of Hadoop. Built on Cascading workflow system for Hadoop that hides MapReduce. (via kdnuggets) Andy Kessler's Keynote at Defrag Stank (Pete Warden) -- I'm sorry to hear it, because I...
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- Appendix A: Writing Backward-Compatible Code from Ruby Best Practices
- Appendix B. Leveraging Ruby's Standard Library from Ruby Best Practices
- Appendix C: Ruby Worst Practices from Ruby Best Practices
- Appendix A: An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Ruby from Learning Rails
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