Many developers have a set of wrong ideas about Rails parameters. See how you can deal with them in real life.

Learn how to geocode addresses using the GeoKit plugin, as well as calculate distances between points and identify all points within a specified radius!

Web-based mapping solutions are in high demand these days. Learn how to take advantage of the Google Maps API and YM4R/GM plugin to add mapping capabilities to your Rails applications!

Integrate your favorite RSS feeds into your web site by using Ruby's powerful RSS module.

Walk through many of the immensely cool things you can do with Ruby's Time class.

Rails 2.0 was released with great fanfare in early December. Get acquainted with some of the popular framework's newest features.

Rails' Active Record feature has been a boon for developers seeking to downplay their need to interact directly with an application's underlying database. But, did you know you can use other Rails features and the popular Rake tool to manage table schemas, populate tables with seed data, and back up your databases? This tutorial shows you how.

Ruby is often compared to Java and is touted as an alternative to Java. Take a closer look at the building blocks of the two languages and decide for yourself.

Use Rails' Active Record validation callbacks to exercise greater control over user input.

Use Rails' Active Record validations feature to filter user input with ease.

Rails' Active Record association types make table relationship management a snap. Learn how to use this powerful feature to manage complex MySQL table relations more effectively than ever before!

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Manage your MySQL database with incredible ease using Rails' migrations feature.

See how easy it is to get your Rails application running on Tomcat with JRuby!

Take a look at the REXML library and see how you can use it to process XML within your Ruby or Rails application. REXML makes adding XML support to your application a breeze, with a quick learning curve.

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Discover how to use the RJS Template feature of Rails to add Ajax functionality to your Rails application. Ajax and Rails together are a powerful combination, and can not only enhance the user experience of your Rails application, but also increase performance because fewer page reloads are necessary to perform tasks.

Work step-by-step to install Rails into your JRuby installation and get a simple Rails application up and running.

Take a brief tour of Ruby on Rails and discover how to get your first simple Ruby on Rails web application up and running.

Connect your web application to a MySQL database using Ruby on Rails. Than add CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) support to that web application.

Find out why so many people are talking about Ruby on Rails and how you can get up and running quickly.

Discover what happens when you join Ruby, the red-hot dynamic programming language with Java, the leading object-oriented software development language

Are you interested in a cheap, unlimited Web-based data storage service that uses the storage and network infrastructure of Amazon.com, the largest online retailer in the world? Discover how Ruby, REST, and the Amazon S3 REST library for Ruby can give you that capability.

Take Ruby for a quick programming test drive. See if this object-oriented scripting language can help in your development projects!