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@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ application from scratch. It does not assume that you have any prior experience
with Rails. However, to get the most out of it, you need to have some
prerequisites installed:
-* The [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads) language version 1.9.3 or newer.
-* The [RubyGems](http://rubygems.org) packaging system, which is installed with Ruby
+* The [Ruby](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads) language version 1.9.3 or newer.
+* The [RubyGems](https://rubygems.org) packaging system, which is installed with Ruby
versions 1.9 and later. To learn more about RubyGems, please read the [RubyGems Guides](http://guides.rubygems.org).
-* A working installation of the [SQLite3 Database](http://www.sqlite.org).
+* A working installation of the [SQLite3 Database](https://www.sqlite.org).
Rails is a web application framework running on the Ruby programming language.
If you have no prior experience with Ruby, you will find a very steep learning
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ If you don't have Ruby installed have a look at
install Ruby on your platform.
Many popular UNIX-like OSes ship with an acceptable version of SQLite3. Windows
-users and others can find installation instructions at [the SQLite3 website](http://www.sqlite.org).
+users and others can find installation instructions at [the SQLite3 website](https://www.sqlite.org).
Verify that it is correctly installed and in your PATH:
```bash
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ to create an article. Try it! You should get an error that looks like this:
(images/getting_started/forbidden_attributes_for_new_article.png)
Rails has several security features that help you write secure applications,
-and you're running into one of them now. This one is called [strong parameters](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_overview.html#strong-parameters),
+and you're running into one of them now. This one is called [strong parameters](action_controller_overview.html#strong-parameters),
which requires us to tell Rails exactly which parameters are allowed into our
controller actions.