Top Ruby on Rails Tutorials

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A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read a lot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here is the tutorial I found most useful:

Intro to Ruby on Rails – Scott Chow offers his excellent introduction to Ruby on Rails. This is the article that got me really excited about RoR.

Hey, Ruby on Rails Fans!

Want more up-to-date tutorials on Ruby programming? OK, we heard you. Expect more Rails content in the near future!

Happy Rails developing and if you have any other tutorials that you’d like to share, please leave them in the comments!

Free Mac FTP Server

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PureFTPd is a very nice replacement for the somewhat limited FTP server for Mac that comes with OSX. It is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It focuses on efficiency and ease of use and has unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers.

A binary installer is available for both Panther and Jaguar.

To manage the ftp server Mac PureFTP Manager provides a GUI to the PureFTP server. It will ease the creation of users, viewing log files and monitoring the status of the server. PureFTP Manager is also free.

The installation of both these products were very easy, and all told, I had my Mac FTP server setup in less than 10 mintues.