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Rails Magazine Issue 5 Available (Free)

By Peter Cooper — January 4th, 2010 — 1 Comment

In Books, Elsewhere, News

Rails Magazine editor Olympiu Metiu has let us know that the fifth issue of Rails Magazine is now available for free in PDF format. If you're not familiar with the magazine, check out our video review of the first issue to get a feel for what it's about.

Issue 5 has been billed "Winter Jam" and features these articles:

Authentication with Gigya by Curtis Jennings Schofield
Background Processing in Rails by Erik Andrejko
On Your Rails (and Ruby) Education by Bob Martens
Sinatra: Fast Web Application in Ruby by Carlo Pecchia
Sprockets by Starr Horne
Adding Pre-made Extensions to Radiant CMS by Casper Fabricius
Protecting Your Application From Impostors by Gavin Morrice
Geography division select tag by Satish Kota
RailsBridge: Rebooting the Rails Community by Mike Gunderloy
Prince: Powerful PDF Generation by Michael Bleigh
Ruby C Extension Development by Claudio Fiorini
Using the Twitter API with Ruby by Brian Rivard
Continuous Integration Tools in Rails by Saurabh Bhatia
Active Scaffold by Payal Gupta
Implement a Full Text Search Engine with Xapian by Amit Mathur

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