{"id":2516,"date":"2009-08-13T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2009-08-13T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:04:07","slug":"learning-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/08\/13\/learning-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-2516\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learning-Rails-Simon-St-Laurent\/dp\/0596518773\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1250199912&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Learning Rails<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span><strong>Author: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Simon-St.-Laurent\/e\/B000AQ3YA2\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\" target=\"_blank\">Simon St. Laurent<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Edd%20Dumbill\" target=\"_blank\">Edd Dumbill<\/a> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 442 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> O&#8217;Reilly Media, Inc.; 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