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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!
Five tips for contributing to Rails
Chris O’Sullivan gives some top tips and techniques on contributing to Rails.
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.
mod_rails is released
Phusion Passenger (aka. mod_rails) is released after extensive beta testing this weekend. Targeting ease of deployment with apache, but even performance is on par with Mongrel.
An Overview of Rails 2.1 Time Zone Support
A review of the new time zone support in Rails 2.1 over at the mad.ly blog. (Via the Riding Rails blog.)
Twitter library and command line tool
Twitter (Ruby library) is a Ruby library and command line client for the Twitter status / micromessaging social network. It’s not the first Ruby Twitter library but it certainly looks clean and well written.
RDoc 2.0.0 Released
RDoc 2.0.0 has been released, a significant release of the most popular Ruby documentation generator. The biggest improvement seems to be a new implementation of ri that yields some major performance increases.
Produce publication-quality charts and graphs in Ruby
Tioga is a Ruby library that produces “publication quality” charts and graphs. It outputs PDF and uses LaTeX for the text processing. The example results look like standard science paper fare.
Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) Now Available
Phusion Passenger, a.k.a. mod_rails, beta now available for download. Quote: “… makes deployment of applications built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze.”
Great article / walkthrough for Ruport: Ruby Reports
Gregory Brown and Michael Milner have written a great article / walkthrough of Ruport, the Ruby report generation library, for O’Reilly. It seems a pretty solid introduction for those not quite ready to buy the Ruport book.
Interactive rails schema browser now also available on github
The interactive Rails schema browser is now also available on GitHub.
Fix for Rails Apps in a subdirectory bug
Here’s a handy capistrano-based workaround for the Rails bug effecting Rails apps that run in a subdirectory.
Automatically Creating, Loading, and Migrating your Database (with Magic!)
Have you ever wondered why your app can’t automatically create and maintain its database for you? Is this TOO crazy!?
How to open Gems in TextMate on OS X
Graham Ashton explains how to make opening source code for specific Ruby Gems in TextMate a snap. This could come in handy, I’m always inspecting the source and have had to learn the path off by heart!