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Ruby On Rails Goes 1.1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-traveling-at-breakneck-speeds dept.

MrByte420 writes "The Ruby On Rails team today released version 1.1 of the web framework. From the announcement: 'Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make everyday life a little smoother, a little rounder, and a little more joyful.' New features were examined back in February at Scottraymond.net and include Javascript/AJAX integration, enhancements to active record, and enhanced testing suites. Not to mention upgrading this time promises to be a piece of cake."

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  1. Ruby Tutorials by emo+boy · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top -ruby-on-rails-tutorials

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  2. Re:Getting started by BioCS.Nerd · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a good place to start: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ and then perhaps this: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/ (Either one is good -- I used the latter)

    Or, if you're on the lazy side of things, you can try it right within your browser here: http://tryruby.hobix.com/

    I hope this helps.

  3. Rails is Great by nashjobs · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It allowed me to develop this job website in 2 1/2 months spare time with 400 unit/functional tests. I was a Java programmer, and now there's no going back ;-)

    Any other former Java programmers relate?

  4. Re:Javascript is insecure - AJAX is security hole by gregarican · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ever heard of using the Trusted Sites list in Internet Explorer? seems to work for me for per-site permissions.

  5. This seems good for layman understanding by AgNO3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html Found that link on the ruby on rails site and it was the best description for a non techie like me that I could find in fast.

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  6. Re:Ruby Apps by gregarican · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are tools for making Ruby into self-extracting executables --> http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.ht ml. But for a true compiled solution that will likely be bundled with Ruby 2.0. It should include a VM --> http://www.atdot.net/yarv/. As for GUI apps there are extension libraries for Tk, Qt, Fox, WxWindows, GTK, etc.