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South Florida Ruby Brigade


Blog post by a member of The South Florida Ruby brigade giving interesting details about the group's meetups and members.

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Goodbye SQL -- Ezra Z's ez_where plugin now support nested joins and more


Forget about find_by_sql, here is a Rails plugin that lets you use Ruby to build arbitrary queries.

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Juggernaut -- push content to your Rails app (comet)


Collaborative apps, from chat to real-time collaboration, can be created once you add the ability to push and pull data to and from your rails app. Find out how.

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Ruby on Rails Getting Started


A chapter out of a Ruby on Rails book detailing how to install Ruby on Rails under major operating systems, and then create your first application. The document is released under a creative commons license.

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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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RadRails Jobs Board


The RadRails people have added a Jobs section to their web site. It costs $100 via PayPal to post a job, which stays on the board for 30 days, and is promoted in their RadRails podcast.

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Sometimes less is more


Review of some Ruby vs Java idioms, with source code. More problems are solved with both languages for comparison (to show how much Ruby rocks! :-).

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The Ruby/Rails Job Site


Web site devoted to the posting and displaying of Ruby and Ruby On Rails jobs. One of our members, voxdolo, got a job from this board.

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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!