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I had tons of issues in getting Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2 installed on OSX using RVM. Here is the stackoverflow question that shows how to get it all working.

I am really excited about attending my first Lone Star Ruby Conference 2010 at the Norris Conference Center Austin Texas. I plan to attend the following tracks:

Day 1:

1. Real Software Engineering – Glenn Vanderburg
2. Rails’ Next Top Model: Using ActiveModel and ActiveRelation - Adam Keys
3. Decyphering Yehuda – Gregg Pollack
4. How to Build a Sustainably Awesome Development Team – Jim Remsik, Les Hill
5. What every Ruby programmer should know about threads – Caleb Clausen
6. Battle of NoSQL stars: Amazon’s SDB vs Mongoid vs CouchDB vs RavenDB – Jesse Wolgamott
7. Taking Mongoid into the Future – Bernerd Schaefer
8. Tropo – An open-source cloud communications platform for Ruby – Jason Goecke
9. KeyNote – Tom Preston-Werner

Day 2:

1. Ruby in the Wild – James Edward Gray II
2. Why And How You Should Make Awesome Command Line Apps with Ruby – David Copeland
3. JSON and the Argonauts – Building Mashups with Ruby – Wynn Netherland
4. No Sudo for You! – Rogelio J. Samour
5. Beehive, scalable application deployment – Ari Lerner
6. Padrino, The Elegant Ruby Web Framework – Joshua Hull
7. A Scalable Rails App Deployed in 60 Seconds with Heroku – Ben Scheirman
8. Lightning Talks
9. KeyNote – Blake Mizerany

I will try to post some pictures. Please come say Hi if you are planning to attend the conference.

#LSRC

In Rails you can index arrays using ranges in which the start and end positions are separated by two or three periods.

The difference between a two and three period range is that a range with two periods includes the end position and the range with three periods does not.

Example:

To add content from a RSS feed to your site using Rails:

# rss.html.erb

If your Rails application is just consuming a Web Service and has no need for a database than all you have to do to is uncomment the following line in environment.rb