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A collection of useful filters for AngularJS, e.g. for fuzzy string searching, displaying numbers as percentages an more.
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Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby. Promising chart library for easily rendering charts with Google Charts.
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We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv
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