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Here is a simple tutorial to get rails working with oracle.

Here are a few of the smaller changes that made it into Rail 1.1. They maybe small but the look very useful.

I just checked my mail and Rails 1.1 is out. Read DHH’s post for more info.

A few minutes ago I stumbled across the Rails Recipes forum. Then I saw a link to it’s code called opinion. Here is a overview from its trac.

Opinion is a Ruby on Rails based Forum system that tries to approximate a “blog <-> comment” system rather than imitating busy and noisy traditional forum solutions that already exist.

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Here is a list of changes from 1.0

Steve Yegge at O’Reilly Ruby has a blog post called Transormation. This is an article about refactoring and it a good read.

Just in case you’ve not heard of him. Why_ is a very active member of the ruby community. He has written many modules. For example:

• YAML
• Camping
• Markaby

He also has two ruby tutorials.

• why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby
• Try Ruby

He has many web sites, but the one I use the most is RedHanded.

why_ is a lunatic that you have to keep your eye on.

Just to brake the constant ImageNow happings. Hereis a post with the new features in Rails 1.1

I was thinking about writing something like this for rails. I guess these guys beat me too it.

This is a good article on ruby meta-programming and symbols. All budding rubist should read.