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El Dorado v0.9.2 (Group Chat Edition)
Reposting… El Dorado version 0.9.2 (Group Chat Edition) has been released. This version of the “Rails app for small groups” adds a very simple real-time group chat to compliment the forum and file sharing features.
What To Do If GitHub Broke Your RubyGems
An interesting set of instructions on what to do if using gems.github.com as a Gem source breaks your RubyGems. The short version: Remove gems.github.com as a source, update your RubyGems install, then add it back.
Rails Views Entirely in JavaScript
How to write your Rails views entirely in JavaScript. Interesting idea, but I’m not sure of the benefit of this yet..
Complete Ubuntu 8.04 Rails Server - Part 1
Ubuntu 8.04 Ruby on Rails Server Guide. Part 1 of the guide is online. Part two will be online next week. Get your servers ready! SysAdmins Chronicles - Ubuntu 8.04 Server Guide
Routing in Rails 2.0
Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) - Part 3 of n
CommunityEngine
CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
Mack 0.5.0 Released
Mack 0.5.0 was released yesterday with the much debated ORM support changes.
RubyFlow Back On Track (ish)
With merely 10 minutes to fix this morning’s spam issue before I have to go out (now!) there were a whole range of balls ups and mistakes made, and so.. we’re now back on Sunday’s database. Sorry! [more inside]
JavaScript GitHub Badge For Your Blog / Site
The unstoppable Dr Nic has put together a JavaScript GitHub badge widget that allows you to show off which projects you’re working on at GitHub.
Picolena: Ferret-powered Document Search Engine
Picolena is a Ruby gem that provides an app that works as a Ferret-powered document search engine (accessible over HTTP).
Introduction to TextMate's Ruby Bundle
An interesting introduction to TextMate’s Ruby bundle. A good place to start if you use TextMate but haven’t used any of the mnemonics and snippets the Ruby bundle provides (like me).
Rails plugin to do TextMate-style Syntax Highlighting
tm_syntax_highlighting is a new Rails plugin that allows you to do TextMate-style syntax coloring in your app (GitHub repository).
Capistrano 2.3.0
Yehey! Capistrano 2.3.0 is released. It has many new tasty features!
Rails gets more mature
I posted a summary of some of the nice new features coming in Rails 2.1. In short, many of the rough spots are being patched over!
Ruby Hoedown 2008 - Huntsville, AL August 8-9
The Ruby Hoedown for 2008 is going down in Huntsville, Alabama on August 8 and 9. Keynote speakers so far are David Black and Chris Wanstrath. Engine Yard and Ruby Central are sponsoring.
An Entire Rails Team for Hire in London, UK.
Everyone is looking for programmers, but how about an entire team! A team of London based Rails / Web 2.0 developers for hire.
An Open Letter for DHH from India
An open letter from India to Mr. David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails.
Mack Framework: Saying Goodbye to ActiveRecord
Mark Bates, author of Mack framework, decided to support only DataMapper and remove native support of ActiveRecord in his project. He described the reason why he choiced DataMapper instead of ActiveRecord.
alonetone: Rails app for musicians (open source)
alonetone is the first non-commercial Rails-powered web app providing musicians with unlimited space to upload and share their tunes. The software behind it is open source (GitHub repository).
Ruby compiler tutorial
A multi-part tutorial on writing a compiler in Ruby.
Rails Envy podcast, with FiveRuns developer Adam Keys
FiveRuns developer Adam Keys joins Jason Seifer And Gregg Pollack in this week’s RailsEnvy podcast.
New Relic release
New Relic lets you get serious about Rails performance. Profile your production environment in real time and live.