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PHP to Ruby documentation

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This would've been so useful to me when I switched from PHP to Ruby a couple of years ago: the PHP documentation with the Ruby equivalent described for each function. Found via RubyFlow.

99 bottles of beer in LOLCode

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Via Labnotes, we get to 99 bottles of beer in LOLCode. Awesome.

PHP better than Ruby (on Rails)?

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Not quite but Derek Sivers, an early proponent of switching to Rails for large-scale websites, has written a post on his O'Reilly blog about why he just gave up on 2 years' work in Rails on his CD Baby project to switch back to PHP. It's a very sensible article looking at the fact that Rails ...

Session management options in Rails

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Found via Ruby Inside, Chris Wanstrath has posted a great round-up of a developer's options for session management within Rails. Stefan Kaes' solution looks like the one I'm gonna go for in the near future.

Mongrel upload progress

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Something I check on the status of now and then is the ability to have a nice upload progress bar for uploads via the browser. Sean Treadway's initial example looked great but required special server setup. Support was added to Mongrel recently, but I never got around to properly investigating as there was no documentation of ...