Footnotes

Chapter 1

1. URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier, while the slightly less general URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. In practice, the URI is usually equivalent to “the thing you see in the address bar of your browser.”

2. http://tryruby.org

3. http://railsforzombies.org

4. http://railstutorial.org/screencasts

5. When reading the Rails Tutorial, you may find it convenient to follow an internal section link to look at the reference and then immediately go back to where you were before. This is easy when reading the book as a web page, since you can just use the Back button of your browser, but both Adobe Reader and OS X’s Preview allow you to do this with the PDF as well. In Reader, you can right-click on the document and ...

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