Double Shot #643

Whew, busy weekend. It's scary when you look forward to Monday as a day of rest.

• Rapid App RC1 (Rapp) & Rails 3.0b Support - Webbynode is early to the Rails 3.0 hosting party.
• The easiest way to test Rails 3 - Instructions from BitNami to get up and running with their RubyStack.
• The Path to Rails 3: Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta - Walkthrough from Jeremy McAnally.
• Signed and Permanent cookies in Rails 3 - Pratik covers one of the new Rails 3 features.
• 52Framework - Claims to be the first HTML5/CSS3 framework, and as far as I know, it is.
• Standard Browser Security Features - Surely the most comprehensive writeup of same origin policy in existence.
• Rails Plugins - Site that's tracking whether plugins are ready for Rails 3. Not much uptake yet.
• The Rails Initialization Process - Ryan Bigg goes digging into the guts of Rails 3.
• Why Riak should power your next Rails app - Deep dive into another NoSQL alternative.
• Auditing Rails Projects - Quite old, but still workable technique for adding rcov builds to cerberus.
• D'Note - Automatically extract TODO and FIXME and so on from your source code. This could come in handy as part of a build process.
• mocklinkr - Make your mockups linked & clickable.
• Facebooker tips 1 - SessionExpired, Cucumber and Default environment - Elad Meidar is starting to document his battles with Rails + FaceBook.
• RoboDomain - Domain management tool for people with a lot of domains.
• Ruby Whois 1.0 is here! - The code behind RoboDomain.
• rake db:size - Rake tasks to get database and table sizes. A little collaboration between Elad and myself.
• jDiv - jQuery rollover dropdown panel.
• jquery-twit - And, yes, Twitter display via jQuery.
• Bundle me some Rails - An introduction to the way Rails 3 does library management. I remain deeply skeptical.
• MegaMutex: A Distributed Mutex for Ruby - Lock things cross-machine using memcached.
• Javascript unpacker and beautifier - Makes dealing with minified js a bit easier.

Comments

[Eric Davis]

D'Note looks a lot like Rails' rake notes command. rake db:size looks really useful for Heroku databases, where you are limited by the database size.