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Ruby On Rails is a  Web development framework created in 2005. Since then it’s spurred a range of innovation in Web development. In this community you’ll find articles, resources and discussions to help you learn RoR and hone your skills. Following this community adds its articles and discussions to My Tech Feed.

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New Social Video Producers Need Developers

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Apr 27, 2012
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Social media is going video. The scramble to create the perfect social video sharing app is underway, with no fewer than seven startups already in the fray, some of them already hiring. Each of their products offers some kind of variation on taking short videos, shot with a smartphone and uploaded easily to an environment where they can be shared with friends or categorized for browsing and sharing with the wider world. Because these startups are small and nimble, most… continue…

A Better Way to Get Tickets for EuRuKo

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Apr 18, 2012
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EuRuKo is one of the best Ruby conferences in Europe, and getting tickets is really hard. Normal tickets are 65,- EURO and usually sell out quickly so make sure you are ready and waiting Imagine, you have 200 tickets for an event but around 4,000 people trying to attend. Would you think of a better way to offer them? Maybe handle them like a rock concert: Open your point of sales at a specified time, and let people line up… continue…

Programmers Have a Wealth of Educational Resources

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Apr 16, 2012
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Instagram just sold for a billion dollars. Pinterest has become the third-leading social networking site in only a few months. Angry Birds is worth… who knows how much? It seems that writing a cool app has become something akin to playing the lottery, but with better odds of actually winning something. What are the resources you use to keep your coding skills up to date? Tell us in the comments below.  That’s why people are scrambling to learn the languages… continue…

NOSQL and SQL: A Match Made in Heaven?

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Apr 6, 2012
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When we write applications in an RDBMS database, we can’t create whatever relationship we want between database objects. Since we’re using a relational database, this seems like a contradiction. Let’s skip the semantics and see what happens in the Rails world. Rails is presented as database agnostic, but that really means Relational Database Agnostic — you still have to use an RDBMS database to persist your objects. SQL doesn’t play well with large clusters. Note that neither Google not Amazon… continue…

Ruby on Rails Course Goes Open Source

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Mar 29, 2012
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A popular six-week Ruby on Rails course taught at New York’s General Assembly last year is now available online. Is $2800 too much to pay for a Ruby on Rails class? Post your thoughts below.  Daniel Doubrovkine, head of engineering at Art.sy,  posted the curriculum on Github and licensed it under Creative Commons. The class summary: We start by introducing students to the Ruby development environment and show elementary Ruby code. Students also learn how to use Git and exercise the development workflow via… continue…
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