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Ruby River on Friend Feed
I’ve created a Ruby River account on Friend Feed for Friend Feed addicts who want to keep track of Ruby Flow, the Ruby/Rails sub-reddits, and delicious/popular/(ruby rails rubyonrails).
Mollom Library
Recently Mollom, a web service that helps you identify content quality and helps you stop comment and contact form spam, went live. the mollom gem is a library to interface with the mollom API.
Phusion Passenger on SliceHost Ubuntu 7.10
Configure Phusion Passenger on SliceHost with Ubuntu 7.10. Complete walk-through of setting up a new slice to host Rails apps with Passenger and some common gotchas.
Ruby 1.8.7 Preview Released
Preview 1 of Ruby 1.8.7 has been released. There appears to be a significant amount of backporting going on from 1.9, so 1.8.7 could turn into a very useful stepping stone.
using the in_place_editor on rails 2.0 with rjs templates
On rails 2.0 you may incur in some gotchas if you try to use the in_place_editor with :script=>true to update one or more html elements at time.
Rubinius is Friendly!
Part two of the Rubinius For The Layman series: How Rubinius is Friendly. It mostly focuses on Rubinius’ more verbose and detailed error backtraces.
How to Contribute to Rails Using Git
Tim Pope has put together a list of best practices for contributing to Rails now it’s running on Git. Ideal for those new to Git and wondering how to keep working on Rails.
Scout Opens to Public
Scout, the easier way to monitor servers and web applications, finally opens to the public!
Using Ruby with the Google Data APIs
Using Ruby with the Google Data APIs Published in April 2008. Could this be a good sign that App Engine will support Ruby?
LiveValidation
Live validation plugin for rails makes validating forms client-side a no-brainer.
Merb tip - how to freeze a Merb project
Matt Aimonetti walks through <a href=http://railsontherun.com/2008/4/15/merb-tip-how-to-freeze-a-project>the new merb-freezer plugin</a> and explains why, when and how to freeze a Merb app.
Rails Interview: Michael Slater
RubyLearning talks to Michael Slater of BuildingWebApps.com on Ruby, Rails - a must read for people new to Ruby / Rails.
Hacking Rails' Scaffolding
James O’Kelly on RubyJitsu does the deed of showing how to clean up your scaffold generated controllers and views in Rails.
Open Source Rails
The OpenSourceRails homepage shows the latest applications promoted to the front page, with the ability to bookmark, rate, and download applications It also provides basic tagging and search capabilities.
Ruby-Processing on GitHub
Ruby-Processing has a spiffy new home on GitHub, and is eagerly awaiting branches. 0.7 is also out, with the ability to export OpenGL sketches, a flocking library, and more.
How to get Rails talking to MS SQL Server
Jonathan Cummins walks through a few easy steps to get a Rails application working on SQL Server.
Posts about acts_as_taggable_on and icalendar
Publishing ICalendar events with Ruby on Rails and Playing with acts as taggable on are two tutorials that I want to share with RubyFlow readers.
PuTTY Color Themes
A few free color themes for PuTTY, for all us lucky Windows-based Ruby/Rails developers!
This Week in Ruby (April 14, 2008)
This Week in Ruby (April 14, 2008): a summary of this week’s highlights from the Ruby and Rails communities.
Gosu 0.7.9 (Ruby game dev library) Released on OS X and Windows
Julian Raschke has announced the release of Gosu 0.7.9 for Mac OS X and Windows. Linux support is to follow. Gosu is one of the best and easiest game development libraries on Ruby, so it’s worth a try if you haven’t checked it out yet.
Ruby to JavaScript Compiler
RubyJS compiles / converts Ruby code into JavaScript that can run on most major browsers.
19 Ruby Templating Engines Reviewed
Vidar Hokstad presents mini reviews of 19 different Ruby-based templating engines. This is a surprisingly good round up.
[ANN] Free Online Ruby Programming Course
The 5th Batch of the Free Online Ruby Programming Course starts 3rd May 2008. Registrations are open.