Lots of links piled up over the weekend. I’ll try to get something more substantive posted later.

  • The Rails Myths – The list continues to grow, though it’s also generating some responding posts and general snark elsewhere.
  • Beginner’s Guide to Installing Merb – Updated for Merb 1.0. Still some hoops to jump through.
  • Speeding Up Rails Development – Some suggestions from Jim Neath.
  • new plugin: acts_as_git – Connect a text or string field directly to a git repo for easy versioning.
  • 3 Ways To Build Fake Demo Data For Your Rails App – My latest for Rails Inside.
  • Rails 2.2 RC2: Last stop before final – Rails 2.2 is coming together.
  • WebKit Nightly Builds – The developer stuff in the latest WebKit builds is pretty spiffy – right-click and “inspect element”.
  • A test server for Rails applications – Intended to be the Rails equivalent of RSpec’s spec server.
  • Profiling Your Rails Application – Take Two – There are big advances in this area. Some day I may even understand them.
  • First, foremost and [0] – The difference between post.comments.first and post.comments[0] in Rails is subtle and surprising.