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Freeze Merb and bundle gems to your application using Git submodules or local gem
One of things Merb does better than Ruby on Rails is libraries bundling, especially if you use Git for your Merb application. A short blog post describes what is so cool about Git modules and teaches you how to freeze Merb and bundle other libraries into your Merb application.
Part 3 of Merb Book
Bamboo Blog published a third post on using Merb and DataMapper, part of an open source book under development which is available at Github. This post described installing Merb, directory structure and basic application configuration. Also check out Part 2 and Part 1.
Working with Sphinx fulltext search engine using ultrasphinx
Sphinx is fast text search engine. Here is an article about how to use sphinx with the plugin UltraSphinx.
up-to-date YARV instruction table
Here’s a blog post about an up-to-date YARV instruction table and how it is generated.
Ruby Interviews: Bruce Williams of FiveRuns
Bruce Williams of FiveRuns gives us an interesting perspective on the different issues facing the would-be Ruby developers. Read this Ruby Interviews: Bruce Williams of FiveRuns.
Dostorm - share and organize brainstroms
DoStorm - online application for organizing and sharing brainstorms.
Forulio - tag based forum software
Forulio - tag based forum engine written with Ruby on Rails with nice ajax integration and must useful features.
Stone: dead-simple data persistence
Introducing Stone, a dead-simple data persistence layer for Ruby web frameworks. For tiny apps that don’t need the pain overhead of a dbms+orm combo, consider this alternative. More info here.
Stone: dead-simple data persistence
Introducing Stone, a dead-simple data persistence layer for Ruby web frameworks. For tiny applications that don’t need the pain overhead of a DBMS+ORM combo, consider this replacement. Here’s an example of a blog backed by Merb+Stone.
passenger: mod_rails - first try
A first quick try of passenger aka mod_rails.
A Tutorial for Paperclip
A small guide on using Paperclip to manage your uploads. Paperclip: Attaching Files in Rails
How to avoid AR Mailer memory issues
How to avoid AR Mailer memory related issues
Rails Envy Code Monkey
There are many people in the Ruby/Rails world who contribute to our community and rarely receive any recognition or payment for their work. Show your gratitude and nominate your favorite Ruby / Rails contributer for a Ruby Hero Award.
Merb Manage
Announcing merb-manage - a simple tool for managing the configuration of Merb applications, and providing an easy way of ensuring your apps start when your server does.
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.
How to use custom Mime Types to make Fac...
How to use custom Mime Types to make Facebook templates for existing actions super easy.