If by some chance you missed it, I’m now doing the edge Rails updates for the Riding Rails weblog. Oh, and I’m writing for Ruby Inside and Rails Inside now too. So, you know, I have more outlets for your important news :)

  • A critical look at the current state of Ruby testing - Something of a rant from Dan Croak. It’s liable to provoke heated discussion.
  • Hoshi 0.1.0 Released…Soon - This looks like an interesting way to attack the generation and recognition of HTML from pure Ruby code. (via RubyFlow)
  • The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with Ruby - Looks like this one is on the way for April. No pre-order link yet though.
  • Live Textile JS Preview - A useful tool if you need to proofread Textile-marked up text.
  • SimplySearchable plugin - A new take on automatically building some useful named scopes.
  • A major milestone for DB2 on Rails - Those who think Rails has no place in the enterprise should note that IBM is officially supporting it with a brand-new DB2 adapter, including transactional migration support. (via Riding Rails)
  • Do you know when your code runs? - If you don’t, you can get into trouble moving from development to production.
  • Legos, Play-Doh, and Programming - Coding philosophy from Jamis Buck.
  • 7 Stages of Scaling Web Applications - Overview slides from Rackspace.
  • Rail’s Dev Mode Performance Plugin - Josh Goebel wants to speed up your Rails in development mode.
  • Merb 1.0 - It’s out. You can also get a ton of links from Ruby Inside.
  • wee_lightbox rails plugin - This actually seems to work rather well to get Lightbox integrated with Rails.