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Chef is a young and ambitious Ruby DSL built for easy configuration management. Nick Zadrozny will take a look at the philosophy of configuration management, the basics of Chef, and some recipes to build out a basic Rails server. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

MySQL is by far the most popular database management system for small- to medium-sized web projects. In MySQL Essential Training, instructor Bill Weinman provides clear, concise instruction in the tools needed to create and maintain a database. Bill explores the different data types MySQL supports, and the functions it provides,...

Need to ensure your background processes stay up and running and don't use too many resources? Check out the god gem as shown in this episode.

In this episode, Toby Sterrett gives us an update on his soon-to-be-released project StaffTool. StaffTool is a web-based church management application build with Ruby on Rails.