Free as in Time

It’s been a while since my last “Ruby Tuesday”, but I’m hoping to revive the feature. Here’s some stuff that caught my attention this week:

InfoQ has a quick piece on The Forgotten Ruby Web Frameworks:

With the success of Ruby on Rails, is there a place left for other Web frameworks written in Ruby? Everyone knows Rails, some might even have heard of Merb and Camping, but has anyone heard of Nitro, Ramaze, Sinatra, IOWA or Cerise? InfoQ quickly tours these frameworks and how they are appreciated (or ignored) by the blogosphere.

I took a quick look at Sinatra a little while ago, and I’m looking for a project where I can give it a serious try. Haven’t looked much into the others. Getting a firmer grounding in Rails has most of my attention in this space right now.

Keeping with the theme of Ruby without Rails (gasp!), here’s a RubyConf Recap which is worth a quick glance. Following the link from there to the RubyConf site itself for a quick glance at what’s going on there is also worthwhile.

Kevin Skoglund has a very good start on a series of articles on Testing in Rails. It’s only an introduction at this point, but it’s very well put together and I can’t wait to see what comes of it.

Heroku provides an interesting service for building Rails applications, or at least will sooner or later. It’s hosting and more, and worth a quick look.

And last, but certainly not least, Rails 2.0, Release Candidate 1 is out.

Happy Tuesday all.

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