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 #618

Well, at least it's January.

• Primer - Paste in HTML, get back a CSS stylesheet with all the classes and IDs listed.
• jLinq - LINQ style querying in Javascript. This is getting out of hand.
• Save MySQL! - You know, if the MySQL founders wanted to exercise so much control over its future, maybe they shouldn't have sold the company.
• RSSOwl 2.0.2 - A new release of a desktop RSS reader. That's a rare occurence these days.
• hanoi - Some glue for automated jQuery testing.
• netrecorder - Record actual network traffic for later use with fakeweb.
• A Month in the Life of Thinking Sphinx - Lots of nice changes to this gem lately.
• phd - Push deployments for passenger.
• ReMate - TextMate plugin to disable automatic project tree refresh, making TM more useful against remote shares.

Double Shot #613

Last week of the year. This one can't end soon enough for me.

• Blueprints 0.4.0 - Another replacement for factories and fixtures with some nice syntactic sugar.
• Ruby 1.8.7-p248 released - Can't really tell how significant this is because reading Ruby's own changelogs is a mystery to me.
• holidays - Gem to extend the Ruby date class to make it holiday aware. Works well, once you figure out you have to require the individual holiday support for whatever region you're interested in.
• CoffeeScript - Rubyish language that compiles down to JavaScript.
• RMSforms - CSS styling framework especially for forms.
• formtastic-sass - Sass mixins to style formtastic forms. If only I liked sass.
• MySQL and Postgres command equivalents (mysql vs psql) - Handy if you switch back and forth.
• email-spec - Matchers and steps for testing email with RSpec and Cucumber.
• rspec-integration - A mind meld between regular Rails integration tests and RSpec. So far I like this much better than Cucumber.