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Remember all those years ago when we raised a bunch of cash for Rails documentation? Still paying out, regularly. Pratik’s docrails project is chugging along with almost reckless abandon. Boy do these guides look great!

Here are the most recent three articles, and wow, are they high quality!

Sven Fuchs wrote this definitive guide to Rails Internationalization which is for “translating your application to a single custom language other than English or for providing multi-language support in your application.”

Cássio Marques wrote the excellent ActiveRecord validations and callbacks guide, which provides an in-depth look at validations, callbacks, the whole AR lifecycle, and then tells you how to write your own. This is a ground-up guide that takes you from noob to expert.

Finally, Ryan Bigg nailed the ActiveRecord query interface to the freakin’ wall. This is the be-all and end-all of ActiveRecord guides, folks.

A job well done by all, and they’re all richer for the experience, both knowledge and hard cash. Writing guides is how I got started in rails, and I’d strongly recommend any smart cookies out there write a guide to a part of the code on which they’re not so hot. As a side note, none of these people are from the US, which is a reminder to those of us North American-centric coders that there is a huge world of smart people out there.