Monday
Apr192010
Double Shot #693
Monday, April 19, 2010 at 5:37AM
A collection of odds and ends to start the week.
- Saying Goodbye to Apple - I hope I don't get to this point. I rather fear that I will.
- 2 Steps to Becoming a Great Developer - Advice from Eric Davis.
- Sprinkle - A software provisioning tool for remote servers. Maxim Chernyak put together a cheat sheet for it.
- CanCan 1.1 - With a pile of new features for this Rails authorization solution.
- drift - Cocoa/MacRuby app for editing and creating gists. Think of it as a versioned cloud text editor.
- DbCharmer - Plugin that adds master-slave clustering, horizontal sharding, and vertical sharding to your Rails projects.
Reader Comments (4)
You simply don't NEED a Macbook Pro to write Ruby or software in general. I just don't understand why so many people in the Ruby community slobber and foam at the mouth over Apple laptops...
I've been using Sprinkle happily for a while now, but I hear that Chef Solo is pretty good and I've been thinking of checking that out as an alternative. Honestly, though, Sprinke is "good enough" so it's hard to justify changing ;)
I fussed with a bunch of ActiveRecord multi-database solutions and I was about to give up when I found DbCharmer. It's flexible, not too magic (in the shoot yourself in the foot kind of way), and the codebase is small and easy to read.
Switch to Linux Mike! :)