Double Shot #653

No shortage of interesting and shiny distractions today.

• Bling Bling gem management - Why yes, there is already a replacement for Bundler.
• Announcing the Currencies Gem - Multi-currency and exchange rate support for the money gem.
• htmlBurger - Paid service to convert PSD to XHTML/CSS/light JS.
• Inline Styler - Convert CSS rules to inline style attributes for use in HTML email.
• rghost - Another alternative for PDF creation from Ruby. Anyone used this one?
• Running Rails 2.3.x on IronRuby - Rob Bazinet shows how to take the first steps.
• HTML Dog - Well-recommended set of HTML and CSS tutorials.
• What really happens when you navigate to a URL - It's complicated.
• RubyGems.org move complete - GemCutter has finished its bloodless coup over ruby gem hosting. Time to upgrade your rubygems to 1.3.6.
• jQuery Simple Multi-Select, jQuery Multiselect list plugin, and jQuery MultiSelect Plugin w/ ThemeRoller Support - Three options for adding click-to-toggle functionality to HTML select controls. I ended up using the first of these on a project, and it works well.
• Use a 503 for your Rails maintenance page - One more little bit of polish and standards.
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook - Now out and ready to download. Looks well-worth the $12.

Double Shot #640

Sometimes it seems that tomorrow is a long time in coming.

• js.fiddle - Online HTML/CSS/JavaScript editor supporting jQuery, YUI, mooTools, Prototype and more.
• ActiveMerchant 1.5.0 Released - With new gateways and support for Ruby 1.9.
• Announcing Gemcutter/Caliper Integration - Now you can see just how bad the code is in your favorite gem.
• Bayesian Classification on Rails - How to do it.

Double Shot #620

Looks like the first snow of the winter is about to arrive. My kids are considerably more overjoyed with this than I am.

• Puppet 0.25.2 - Big new release of this sysadmin automation tool.
• NoSql Databases – Part 1 - Landscape - Looks like a thorough survey of what's out there today.
• Gem webhooks - Gemcutter can now post to a URL whenever a gem is updated.
• phone - Country-aware phone number parsing gem.