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Here’s your chance to learn Ruby programming for free, at the comfort of your home and along with an online teacher.
This course is ideal for those of you who want to complement your skill-set with Ruby, but haven’t quite found the time to do so. There would be online lessons, exercises, quizzes and assignments all [...]

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It’s time to thank RubyLearning’s excellent sponsors!
Locaweb is the number 1 hosting company in Brazil, with around 400 employees and 133 thousand clients, hosting more than 220 thousand domains. I am including any news or developments the sponsor has had during July 2008.
Locaweb just opened up the registration website for the greatest Ruby on Rails [...]

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It’s time to thank RubyLearning’s excellent sponsors!
BuildingWebApps is a resource site for Ruby on Rails developers that includes more than two dozen original articles, including Rails setup guides for Windows and Mac, as well as more than 1,000 links to the best resources from all around the web. It is also the home of the [...]

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It’s time to thank RubyLearning’s excellent sponsors!
FiveRuns is a provider of Rails application (and server) monitoring services. I am including any news or developments the sponsor has had during July 2008. Two things worth mentioning here are:

They recently introduced DataFabric - a gem they wrote to help with ActiveRecord. One of the lingering issues they [...]

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Here’s a digest of RubyLearning’s best posts for Ruby beginners. These include (with the latest posts first):
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David Flanagan talks to RubyLearningDavid Flanagan is the author of the book “The Ruby Programming Language”. David says that his book was written to be a definitive book on the language, and is intended for those who want to [...]

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Part 2
Continuing from where we left off in Part 1 of the article - Using ActiveRecord and JDBC with JRuby, let us now create a database called students and a table called rubyists (this holds say, the names and cities of all those who have downloaded my JRuby eBook). To do this, open a command [...]

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O’Reilly Media, Inc. is a strong supporter of RubyLearning.org and recently announced a 50% discount, for the participants of the FORPC101 course, on their book “The Ruby Programming Language” by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto. Satish Talim of RubyLearning recently caught up with David Flanagan who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by [...]

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Locaweb is a strong supporter of RubyLearning.org and Satish Talim of RubyLearning recently caught up with Fabio Akita of Locaweb, who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by RubyLearning.
Fabio Akita is a Brazilian Rails enthusiast, also known online as “AkitaOnRails”. He regularly write posts on his own blog and had published [...]

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Morph Labs have been supporting RubyLearning.org for some time now. Satish Talim of RubyLearning recently caught up with Guy Naor (CTO Morph Labs), who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by RubyLearning.
Guy Naor is a veteran of the computing and technology world since 1981. Guy’s technology experience spans evolution and [...]

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On the eve of the new JRuby Course announced by RubyLearning, Satish Talim of RubyLearning caught up with Charles Nutter, who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by the RubyLearning participants.
Charles Nutter has been a Java developer since 1996. He currently works full-time as a core developer on JRuby at Sun Microsystems. [...]

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JRuby is a 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.
Recently, JRuby has been gaining more and more attention in the Java and Ruby communities. Java is a powerful platform and there are millions of lines of Java code being written each month, that the world will have to live with for a long time [...]

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Fabio Akita is a Brazilian Rails enthusiast, also known online as “AkitaOnRails”. He regularly write posts on his own blog and had published the very first book tailored for the Brazilian audience called “Repensando a Web com Rails”. He is now a full-time Ruby on Rails developer working as Brazil Rails Practice Manager for the [...]

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Making critical information available across the Internet has arguably been one of the most profound business enablers in the history of technology. It has meant expanded markets, increased productivity, and streamlined processes. Unfortunately, it has also meant a profound increase in operational risk. Vulnerabilities like command injection attacks result from inadequately designed or written Ruby [...]

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José Carlos Monteiro is a Portuguese Ruby enthusiast and a student of the FORPC101 course. He has over 10 years of experience in programming with languages such as C, C++, Delphi, Java, Perl, PHP. He is also familiar with coding Unix Shell Scripts and used to working with version control systems (CVS and Subversion). His [...]

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