Free as in Time

• Long running Threads in Rails and metaprogramming fun. You know, I should just link to Yan’s blog and be done with it.
• Ajax search in Rails
• Book Review: Deploying Rails Applications
• Looking into Rubinius, a new Ruby VM
• Spiceworks: Rapid Ruby, Customer Focus, and Starting a Company

• Testing your ActiveRecord migrations
• Setting The Crontab Environment For Your Ruby on Rails Jobs
• How to setup TinyMCE for Ruby on Rails
• Ruby Plus: Free Ruby and Rails Screencasts
• The RubyFringe conference

At this moment I’m highly caffeinated and trying to understand what’s going on here:

Gems On Rails → ‘gemsonrails’ aka ‘vendor everything’

I think it’s the answer to about 70% of my LDAP connection woes. Or it will be. When I can see straight.

A cheat sheet for every occasion:
Ruby and Ruby on Rails cheat sheets.

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 [...]