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The popularity of Ruby grows exponentially and with that, more and more people are learning the language. Recently, 400+ would-be Ruby developers from around the world registered for the Free Ruby Lessons at RubyLearning.com and more keep joining everyday. Most Ruby beginners have a plethora of questions related to the language; opportunities in Ruby; Ruby’s [...]

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I have been asked time and again about ‘Rails Hosting In India‘ and thought it best that I list down the Rails Hosts that I have heard of, in India.
Here’s the list, not in any specific order:

Traffic Pullz - a very detailed list of services available with them (related to Rails) has been mentioned on [...]

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The Pune GNU/Linux Users Group have announced ‘PLUG MASHUP‘, a technology event which includes a Hack-a-thon and a mashup camp to be held on October 13th and 14th, 2007 at Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan, Pune, India. The Hack-a-thon will bring together many developers and contributors. It will aim to generate some serious code during the event, in [...]

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RubyLearning caught up with Arindam Basu and requested him to brief us about Survserv, a Rails based real time outbreak detection system (still in Beta).
Hello Arindam, and welcome to RubyLearning.com. Tell us something about your background.
I am a physician-epidemiologist-health services researcher, and I direct an International Research Training Program in environmental and occupational health related [...]

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The Ruby Association has announced ‘The Ruby Logo Contest‘. An official Ruby logo is needed to promote Ruby, and therefore a contest to select one.
Requirements

it must be easily recognizable as the Ruby logo
it must look good in low resolution and in grayscale
works both with and without text `Ruby’ (can be ignored if the text `Ruby’ [...]

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