Double Shot #611

Know what day it is? Nope, not 2 days before Christmas: it's the 1-year anniversary of the announcement of the Rails and Merb merger! It's a good thing we don't need Rails 3 to build good web applications.

• WRKTE - Rich text editor in jQuery.
• #grid - Easy grid overlay for web page design.
• Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser - A technology I don't feel the need for yet, but maybe some day.
• Bundler is the new hotness: deploying rails apps with bundler and capistrano - If you're headed down the Bundler road with Rails 3, this will help you out with deployment.
• Portable Contacts - Ruby implementation of a standard for importing address books that's supported by some of the big players.
• Friendly 0.4: scopes, named_scopes, associations, and more - This NoSQL-in-MySQL project is moving right along.
• Statistics - ActiveRecord plugin for statistics and reporting.