Ruby on Rails, Rails tutorials in British emag

A British PDF magazine called ObjectiveView recently featured two pretty good articles in its ninth issue (2.2mb PDF), one on Ruby on Rails and another on Ruby itself. While neither article is aimed at beginners, anyone who's worked with other languages should be able to get a leg up with them.

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Cheap 3Ware RAID cards are awesome

Just a quick tip this time. As part of a server reshuffle at work we picked up a 3Ware Escalade 7006-2 PCI IDE RAID card that has turned out to be quite brilliant. Instead of dealing with CPU and I/O-intensive software RAID (as this particular server was set up with before), now we have reliable, hardware driven RAID that only cost $100!

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TIP: Installing Sqlite-Ruby causes errors

After installing Instant Rails on one of my machines I then set to install Sqlite, an extremely simple to use database program, and the connector to link it to Ruby. Simple enough, I thought, there's a Gem for it right there. While it was simple to install, there was a little problem with it that it took me a moment to realize what was going on. During the install it said the following:

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