Chances are, you’re hip to the Ruby on Rails programming framework by now. Most web developers are familiar with it, and many are full-fledged Ruby initiates. Even if you’re not part of the ...

Michael was coauthor of RailsSpace, a best-selling Rails tutorial book published in 2007, and was cofounder and lead developer of Insoshi, a popular social networking platform in Ruby on Rails.

I have a VM running Linux Mint and have installed RVM and have some tutorials (though for an older version of Ruby) and just want to play around with it and get a feel for setting up something ...

Softcover is a startup offering what it calls a "frictionless" platform for self-publishing e-books. Co-founder Michael Hartl is an author himself, having written the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. (He's ...