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Ruby developers can choose from a variety of tools to get their job done. The Ruby Toolbox gives you an overview of these tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the corresponding source code repository on GitHub.
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In our hearts most of us know it is true, but we live as if it isn’t. Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions which sustain life. Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose.
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PK's reasonable argument that library systems (1) are multi-layered artifacts between machines and people; (2) architectures must accommodate this diversity; and (3) the technology is available. Librarians should use general systems perspectives.
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I can hear you exclaiming, “Two hours!? Are you nuts? You really don’t want to do that on a web application,” and you would be correct; I did not. But alas, my users wanted it and they waved money in front of my face to get it done. What’s a poor sap like me to do but to comply?
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Seems like a good intro description to REST and web-based app and service architectures. At least I learned something.
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P Keane's further thoughts on using established, web-based approaches for data management and sharing. I like the idea of using what we already have.
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If you happen to use Google Reader and have ever tried to add your twitter feed you'll know that they are incompatible. This is apparently because Google Reader doesn't support the authentication Twitter requires.
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As part of our NoSQL exploration, I’ve spent some time lately with MongoDB. MongoDB bills itself as a “schema-free document-oriented database.” In using MongoDB, I’ve found it to be an easy transition from RDBMS’s because of the way it organizes document-based data.
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Note: he means MongoMapper, not Wrapper :-)
MongoDB is a document-based database engine which works differently from traditional relational databases such as MySQL in that it is schema-free. This episode will cover the basics of using MongoDB with the MongoMapper gem to create a simple Rails application.
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The good news is that the API for storing files in GridFS using Ruby is nearly identical to using Ruby’s File class.
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