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The Basics of Ruby Arrays
Ruby has many exciting object oriented features, but a large percentage of your code will revolve around arrays. In this valuable tutorial, we’re going to show you some tips and tricks for this powerful data structure.
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Rails Best Practices, Tips and Tricks
Because Rails is a young framework, I thought it would be helpful to write up what I consider best practices when coding with it both for my new coworkers and the web at large. Here’s my current draft. Feel free to critique and comment. I’m... (show more)
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Beginning Relationships in Rails
The Rails framework takes most of the headache away from developing these relationships and almost entirely eliminates the need to write low-level queries to your database. If you've spent time writing those queries, Rails' ActiveRecord will make sense,... (show more)
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Understanding Action Views in Ruby on Rails
This article covers the basic services provided by the ActionView. The ActionView helps you present data to your users. Keep reading to learn some terminology and study an example application.
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Understanding Controllers in Ruby-on-Rails
This tutorial will focus on the ActionController. The first sections will cover the services provided by ActionController and the techniques to access them. The final section will provide insight into using these techniques in the real world.
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Introduction to Ruby for Mac OS X
Applie included Ruby with the Jaguar OS. In this article, Jim explains how to use this pure object oriented scripting language by exploring Ruby's features.
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Fast-track your Web apps with Ruby on Rails
This article details the components of Rails and shows you how it works.Rails gives you an extremely quick way to develop flexible Web applications; this introduction just barely touched on what it's like to work with Rails. The full framework contains... (show more)
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Ruby on Rails for DB2 developers
IBM DeveloperWorks has a helpful howto on how to bring the worlds of Ruby on Rails and your DB2 framework together. From the article: 'Because Rails emerged from the open source world, until recently you had to use MySQL or PostgreSQL to work with it.... (show more)
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Get On Track with Ruby on Rails
Ruby is an interpreted scripting language, just like Python and PHP. SitePoint's author Daniel Bogan take a look at the language and how it can be used in web development.
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Distributing Rails Applications
In this tutorial, we'll go through the following steps: Setup the environment Create the SQLite database Develop the Rails application Create the RBA (= Ruby archive) from the application with Tar2RubyScript Create the standalone executable with... (show more)
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Ruby on Rails on Oracle: A Simple Tutorial
This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an expose. It’s simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both praise and criticism. At times the criticism might appear a bit heavy handed (especially to Rails... (show more)
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Ruby on Rails on Oracle: A Simple Tutorial
This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an expose. It’s simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both praise and criticism. At times the criticism might appear a bit heavy handed (especially to Rails... (show more)
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