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A New, Free, Public Domain Rails Logo

Did you know that the Rails 3.0 beta / pre-release went live today? No? You do now! Anyway, I had to do a post about it for Ruby Inside and was sick of not being able to find a logo without…

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Rails Magazine Issue 5 Available (Free)

Rails Magazine editor Olympiu Metiu has let us know that the fifth issue of Rails Magazine is now available for free in PDF format. If you're not familiar with the magazine, check out our video review of the first issue to get…

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Draft of O'Reilly's "Rails In A Nutshell" Free To Read Online

Rails In A Nutshell is a forthcoming book, to be published by O'Reilly, by Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin. Like other titles in O'Reilly's "Nutshell" series, the book is designed to be a concise introduction to the…

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Want To Speak At RailsConf 2010? Submit Your Proposals Now

Want to impress your fellow Rails developers? Want to get a free pass to the world's definitive Rails conference to see great keynote speakers of the caliber of Tim Ferriss? Submit a proposal to speak at RailsConf 2010 - taking place June…

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Join the Rails Bugmash: September 26-27, 2009

Remember the Rails Hackfests of 2007 and 2008? Basically you could jump in to fixing Rails bugs and providing patches and you'd get recognition? Well, RailsBridge and the Rails Core team are running a BugMash under similar principles next week in order…

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Rails Magazine Issue 4 Now Available

Issue 4 of Olimpiu Metiu's Rails Magazine is now available in both a free PDF download format or in print format (via MagCloud) for $6.62. Contents include:

  • Background Processing with Delayed_Job
  • Generating PDF with ODF templates
  • Feel the Radiance with Radiant CMS
  • Oracle Tips and Tricks

And interviews…

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Rails 2.3.3 Released: Nothing Big, But Not To Be Sneezed At

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, has just announced the release of Rails 2.3.3.

Rails 2.3.3 is primarily a bug fixing release, but a few new features have creeped in, including decoding backends for faster JSON and YAML libraries, the touch method…

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Mike Gunderloy's "Rails Rescue Handbook" – Very Handy!

The Rails Rescue Handbook is a new, 83 page PDF e-book by Mike Gunderloy that goes in-depth on how to "rescue" a Rails project that might have, well, gone off the rails. The book is aimed at people who've had to…

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Webbynode: A New Rails-Focused VPS Host Worth Checking Out

For a couple of months now, I've been getting regular e-mails from Carlos Taborda of new host Webbynode, asking me to check out their service, give it a try, watch their screencasts, and so on. You know, the usual promotional…

Warning: Security Hole In Rails 2.3's HTTP Digest Authentication

Nate Kontny of Inkling Markets has found a nasty security hole in the code example provided in both the documentation and blog post for the Digest Authentication functionality in Rails 2.3. If you've built your routine in a similar way to that as shown…

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