What's New in Edge Rails #65

Weeks of April 8 - April 21, 2013

There's still activity in the Rails repo, but no substantial new features have landed in the past two weeks. Rather, it's been fixing tiny bugs, improving documentation, picking up final versions of included gems, and so on. All signs point to a Rails 4.0 release coming soon, in my opinion.

Double Shot #1112

• Mergit - Merge all of your ruby requires into a single file for ease of deployment.
• Garmoshka - Best responsive design accordion ever.
• Rails AB Testing - Simple Abs - An A/B testing library that requires minimal dependencies.

Double Shot #1111

• jQuery 2.0 Released - Make sure you read about the supported browser changes before you switch.
• Let Nunes Do It - Easily extend and consume Rails instrumentation.
• Coffee-Rails - First piece of Rails 4.0 to put out a non-beta 4.0.0 version, I think.
• Amanda - Blog entine that yets you write in Markdown, save on Dropbox, and store in Redis.

Double Shot #1110

• Parser - A fresh parser for all current versions of Ruby, written in Ruby.
• Chef Cookbooks for Busy Ruby Developers - One each for a web server and a database server.
• A Better Development Workflow with Vagrant - How to move over to using VMs for your own development.

Double Shot #1109

• rear - Admin interface for the Espresso framework. Demo at http://rear.rbho.me/.
• Wanderlust - Some notes on effective use of Vagrant after a couple of years of use.
• Nitrous.io - The former action.io web development platform, now with a new name and more funding.
• Introducing TowTruck: A Collaboration Service for Every Website - Things like chat, co-browsing, and co-authoring as a service from Mozilla.
• Security Incident Update - If you've got a Linode account and aren't aware of the credit card breach, you should read this.