The Ruby and Rails community linklog
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Rails IM
Action Messager is an ActionMailer-esque library / plugin for your Rails applications that makes it just as easy to send instant messages as to send e-mails.
Rails development environment on Windows!
How to set up a complete Rails development environment on Windows.
2 Minute Introduction to JRuby on Rails
The 120 seconds guide to JRuby on Rails is a delightfully concise and direct walkthrough creating a very basic Rails application using JRuby very quickly.
Parallel Each with Peach
Peach is a cute Ruby library that provides threaded parallel versions of the “each”, “map”, and “delete_if” iterators (as peach, pmap and pdelete_if respectively.) It’s like a lighter, green threaded attempt at a MapReduce for Ruby.
RGTE is a small, opinionated email filte...
RGTE is a small, opinionated email filter by Scott Barron which processes and filters incoming email into Maildirs. Written in Ruby and available using Git (naturally).
HotRuby News
A few weeks ago, Ruby Inside posted about HotRuby, a JavaScript VM for opcodes produced by Ruby 1.9. Now, JavaScript mastermind John Resig posts with his own impressions of the system. What makes his post especially worth a read is the number of insightful comments.
Create A Facebook Application With 8 Lines Of Ruby
Frankie which helps you create a “hello, world” Facebook application with just 8 lines of Ruby is now available. This blog post gives a good rundown of how it works.
Passenger vs Mongrel vs Thin
A comparison & benchmarks between Passenger, Mongrel, and Thin.
Best of Railscasts
Jacques Crocker on the Rails Jedi blog posted his favorite Railscasts. This is a pretty good round-up.
RubyForge Goes Git
Dr. Nic announces that RubyForge now supports Git as an SCM in addition to CVS and SVN.
Kill Your Fixtures and Spec Happily
Kill Your Fixtures and Spec Happily
Mack
Mack is a new Ruby Web application framework that’s a bit like an ultra-modular Rails. It uses Rack, and claims to be generally faster than both Rails and Merb.
RAD: Ruby Arduino Development
A Ruby library to use the Arduino physical computing platform. Some nice video demonstrations of a Ruby library that interacts with Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform.
Rails Jedi
Rails Jedi is only a handful of posts old, but it’s one of the better new Ruby / Rails related weblogs I’ve seen come along in recent months. Hopefully he’ll keep it going!
Ruby's Not Ready?
Ruby’s Not Ready says one Python die-hard. A 6500 word essay (diatribe?) picking apart Ruby piece by piece and explaining just how much it sucks.
Ruby Flow Launches
Ruby Flow Launches. This is an incredibly meta / circular post, but it’s a good way to kick things off.