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New Ruby on Rails Community - Collaboratively improve Rails documentation


A Rails community aiming to collaboratively improve rails documentation in an organised environment.

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RubyConf Europe : Dave Thomas Strikes Back at Ruby FUD


Bullet points from noted Ruby book author Dave Thomas' keynote address at RubyConf Europe. He takes square aim at the fear ...

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Ruby Plugin Helps You Find Deprecated Code In Your Apps


Plugin designed by Kevin Clark that helps identify code in your Ruby applications that has been deprecated.

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TextMate-like Template Syntax for RADRails


Corban Brook has gone through most of the Rails commands in TextMate and made equivalent templates in RADRails.

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Weed - It, an Open Source Rails Webserver Statistics App


Weed is a MIT licensed statistics application for your Webserver written in Ruby on Rails.

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Boxroom - open source web application for sharing and managing files online


Let a group of people share their files with eachother. The application lets users create folders and up/download files in a web browser.

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Project RIDE-ME is looking for a New Lead Developer


Project RIDE-ME (Rails IDE - Minus Eclipse), the open source Rails IDE for Windows, is in need of a New Lead Developer with .NET experience.

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A Rubyists plan to take over the Microsoft World


John Lambert, the creator of RubyCLR, has accepted a job at Microsoft in the CLR Team, starting January 2007. He seems to go with a plan

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The hottest in holiday gifts is robots this year. You could buy Pleo, the cuddly Pleo Dinosaur, or if humanoid robots are more your thing there is the amazing i-SOBOT. Perhaps you want to release your inner spy with the Spykee wifi spy robot? They're cheaper than a fleet of used yahts!


Hot and new. Elmo Live is the joke and story telling fuzzy red robot you and your kids have dreamed of. You can pre-order Elmo Live now so you don't have to wait in line this holiday when you family makes you buy Elmo Live for them as a present! The other red robot to get this year is the wisecracking, game-playing WowWee Tri-Bot robot. If you're more into robots from popular movies than the robots from the Transformers movie may be more to you or intended gift recipients liking! Finally, the catch-all geek gift of course is the Nintendo Wii console, the hottest gaming system of them all. you'll have to fight to get a good price on the Nintendo Wii but if ever there was a sure-fire gift for your favorite geek this season, the Wii console is it.