Double Shot #496

It looks like the Fairy Godmother Department's lunch hour may be over.

• Many Ways to Tag Taggables - Tobias hunted down all the Rails tagging libraries he could find. Looks like he settled on acts_as_taggable_on, which is the one I use too.


• fleakr - Flickr API integration gem recommended by a couple of my readers.


• read_from_slave - Read your Rails data from a MySQL slave database, while ensuring that writes go to the master database.


• Programming Contest! Win iPhone 3GS & $2,000 Cloud Credit - Engine Yard is planning a contest that is going to make Twitter even more annoying for a while.


• Choosy - OS X utility ($12) to let you choose a browser when you click on a link.


• Ruby Versions - SSH access to a bunch of new and archived flavors of Ruby.

Comments

[Roland]

for master/slave handling I prefer multi_db http://github.com/schoefmax/multi_db/tree/master which is superior compared to all other solutions i've seen.

[Michael Mullany]

Hi Mike, we're limiting the Engine Yard contest to a day in duration and only five tweets max per participant, to limit the annoyance :-)

[mx]

Another Flickr API (that I maintain, sort of) is r2flickr http://github.com/markoa/r2flickr/tree/master