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Hey, I have been progressively learning more and more rails each day (from both a current project, reading the agile book, and this list). Does anybody think it would be beneficial to have kind of like a rails "Best Practices" page that lists some of the better ways of handling certain functions of rails (that are common in most apps) that are both more elegant, and efficient. For

In web applications that have user generated content, it is clearly necessary to provide some ability to ''escape'' user generated text to avoid SQL injection, XSS, and other nasty attacks. The existing dogma on this point seems to favor escaping text as it comes out of the database, rather than doing it on the way in. I''m not sure that I understand the logic behind

I am being barraged with Ruby, Rails and Rich Internet application work right now. Almost enough that I could quit the day job and make a go of it, forgetting about Java altogether. Places in the greater Miami area are turning on to Rails and Ruby -- much of it fueled by the stronger voices in the local Java community. Am I alone in this, or do many of you see absolutely explosive growth in Ruby,