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Rails File Uploading 101

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Mike Clark has put together a stunningly simple tutorial covering how to create a complete file uploading and image resizing system in mere minutes using...

How to Run a Rails Application on JRuby

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Dominic Da Silva has put together a quick tutorial with plenty of screenshots showing how to run a Rails application on JRuby....

Win a copy of "Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax"

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax is a book by Andre Lewis, Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, and Cameron Turner that, simply, looks...

Embedding Images in PDFs with Ruby

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ilya Grigorik has put together a little tutorial demonstrating how to dynamically create PDF "photo calendars" with Ruby. The calendar aspect might not...

The Best Ruby on Rails Page Caching Tutorial Yet

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Just ten days ago Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer launched their new Rails blog, Rails Envy, with a great acts_as_ferret tutorial. I told them to keep up...

How to ditch AppleScript and use Ruby instead

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Matt Neuburg has put together a great article full of examples of using Ruby and AppScript in place of AppleScript to script operations under OS X. I hadn...

Review of "Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Applications" by Patrick Lenz

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications is a new book by Patrick Lenz published by SitePoint. The book is available order in print and PDF forms ...

ED for Windows: Another established IDE adds Ruby support

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
I'm not a big IDE or a Windows user myself, so getting me to review a Windows-based IDE could be quite tough. However, the creator of ED, Neville Franks...

Defining Interfaces through Mocking

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Jonathan Conway of New Bamboo (more on this at the end of this post) has put together a rather comprehensive walkthrough on using mocks with Rails and using...

Skype-Style Firewall Busting with Ruby and UDP

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Skype and Google Talk are pretty clever in the way that they still work even if all of its users are behind firewalls (or NAT systems) that block incoming...