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Learn to use XForms, DB2 pureXML, and Ruby together to create Web applications. Discover the individual strengths of each technology and learn how to integrate them collectively. In Part 2 of the four-part series, you will begin to implement an application for managing information at a doctor’s office.

If you write for a large article-driven web site, you will invariably accidentally lose a whole post. You then have a two basic options: you can write in a word processor software, or you could build your own system to automatically save drafts when writing. That’s what you’ll do here, using periodically_call_remote().

I have put all the basic things in place and you will find it a working tutorial for Ruby on Rails 2.1.

In this article we'll look at an alternative debugging tool for debugging Rails applications (or any Ruby script, for that matter) while still remaining up-to-date with the latest version of the Ruby interpreter. This tool is even slated to be bundled with future releases of Rails.

This is an entry-level tutorial for those new to both Ruby and to Rails. It will give you an overview of what both are (and aren't), how to get started with RoR development, and how to make your first website with RoR.