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Manning is running a contest: If you make the winning entry, you''ll win a $100 Manning Gift Certificate (hey, that''d be two copies of David''s awesome Ruby for Rails). the contest is to complete the phrase: Ruby is to Rails as ___________ is to __________________ The contest is at: http://www.manning.com/black/contest.php -- thanks, -pate

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

If you buy the MEAP (Manning''s version of Beta Books), you can now get the first four chapters of David Black book (that''s nearly 25%!). So far, I''ve been really pleased with it. I just grabbed chapter four, and I''ll be reading it soon. Get more information (or buy a copy) at: http://manning.com/books/black -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Hello all, I work for a company located in Madison, WI and we''re looking at replacing a pre-Struts J2EE ecommerce app with Rails. ''ve been using Rails with pleasure for the last year on several supporting applications, and I have everyone else convinced that it''s at least worth investigating. The developer team has a few experienced Java developers who are

Here is the list of Ruby related projects accepted for GSoC. It includes two very similar projects (seemingly the same project, really, but I''m not saying anything ;) ) using RSpec to build a spec suite for implementations of the Ruby language: http://code.google.com/soc/ruby/about.html I''m, personally, very excited about the implications of this. Thanks to all of you who use,

Hello all- Forgive me if this has been discussed before- I searched the archives and didn''t see anything. Anyway, here it goes- There is a lot of talk lately about Comet-based applications- that is, web apps that hold connections to the server open for a very long time, to effectively achieve realtime data push from the server to the browser. Currently, there are a few web

Hello, I''m seeking a book on rails deployment (I think a general deployment on nix book can helps too) I need in depth information about Apache, FastCGI, (LightTPD maybe). I was thinking always I know what a web server is! but when I think more deeply about it (after reading Capistrano doc) it seems I need more info about app, web and db servers. stuff like how to config the app server

...RubyConf*MI, http://www.rubyconfmi.org - a whole day of Ruby goodness. The conference will be an all day event held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, August 26, 2006. RubyConf*MI [2] will be a single-track conference featuring well-known speakers like David A. Black and Pat Eyler, along with RubyConf alumnus Karlin Fox, local Ruby professionals and hobbyists. From them, you can expect a nice mix of using Ruby both on and off Rails. For more information and to register, please visit the conference website [2]. We look forward to seeing you there! The Michigan Ruby Users Gr...

Christian Gross, the author of AJAX and Best Practices, runs a blog at http://www.devspace.com/ and has started a poll asking which language he should port his AJAX patterns to next. (They are currently available for Java and .Net). If anyone''s interested in seeing Ruby up next, you might head over to the blog and cast your vote. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

I am thinking about migrating a Java based Web Application to Ruby & Rails. Before I start the work I need more information about the runtime environment. I am forced to use Windows 2003 Server and I need SSL. My Java Web Apps all run on Apache 2.x with any of the many J2EE App Servers (Tomcat, Geronimo, etc...) an Windows without any problems. From reading the mongrel web-site I

utahvalley.rb monthly meeting Tuesday, Aug 22 at 7PM in room 120 of the TMCB that''s building 80 on the map at: http://map.byu.edu/Map.html I''ll be presenting my talk on Libraries for developers (consider it a dress rehearsal for RubyConf*MI) Afterwards, we can kick around general Ruby stuff. I hope to see you there. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

the utahvalley.rb will be hackig tonight starting at 7PM in the Lab in room 2004 of the Talmage Math and Computer Science Building (TMCB) at BYU. Kevin and I are either going to work on coverity identified defects in Ruby, or on writing an RSpec specification for checkr. Additional hackers will be welcome to work on either, or on a Ruby/Rails project you bring yourself. -- thanks, -pate

It''s that time again. Tuesday at 7PM, in room 120 of the TMCB. (That would be the Talmage Mah and Computer science Building at BYU.) It should be a great chance to hang out and have some fun with Ruby, Rails, and related toys. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

Better Late Than *Reeeally* Late: Last week''s Ruby column was posted at Linux Journal last night. There appears to be a bit of editorial flux there right now, so markup and scheduling are all a bit weird, but I hope to get things straightened out in time for next weeks column. In addition to news from around the Ruby world, I''ve included a quick overview of the rubyGems and

Most of you have probably read the interview with Zed Shaw: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html I posted a companion interview with Luis Lavena this morning, you can read it in English at: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/interview_with_luis_lavena_2.html It''s also available in German:

Apress (www.apress.com) has announced one RoR book and mentioned that more are coming. Blog Announcement: http://ablog.apress.com/?p=1116 Beginning Ruby Programming Book Website: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10124 Hearkening back to the ruby-talk discussion of Linux Journal''s choice of authors, I''ll note that I don''t recognize David Rupp, the

(Since this has some bearing on rails, I thought I''d post it here too.) The next installment of my Linux Journal column was posted this morning. Lot''s of news this time around, and a quick dive into ParseTree. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8970 -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- -- thanks, -pate -------------------------