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It’s another new week, full of hope.
Today’s hint: If you’re running a Rails app on Debian, and ActionMailer is failing with mysterious “Net::SMTPAuthenticationError: 535 5.7.0 Error: authentication failed: generic failure” errors, check to make sure the saslauthd service is running.
- The Rubyist - New technical magazine with a Ruby bent. Available for $8 in print or $3 in PDF.
- RestClient 0.6 - Now including an interactive shell that lets you replace curl with this Ruby-speaking package.
- Google Maps API Tutorial - Tons of information, better organized than on the official site.
- Prawn 0.1.0 - New pure-Ruby library for PDF generation.
And now I have the fun of provisioning a new server on top of trying to get some work done.
- Sending Mail from Rails Through Google SMTP - I may need to know this some day.
And just like that I’m back to having plenty to do. The life of a consultant is never predictable for long.
- Keep Google Happy: SEO for Online Stores - What to do and how to check it.
- Migrate from Jira or Trac to Lighthouse - In case you want to move your issue tracking to the new popular home in the Rails world.
- CruiseControl.rb 1.3.0 - A release with a few improvements. Git support is planned for the next release.
- Hey Rails, Nice Rack! - Ezra Zygmuntowicz is hacking on Rails to give it Rack support. This would be a big win for various deployment scenarios.
All of a sudden my plate is very full again. But good full: interesting projects, friendly clients. So I’m not complaining.
- Our Most Fulfilling Web Service Yet - Amazon continues to expose more of its underlying business via web services. I’ll bet we see this one wrapped for Rails pretty quickly.
- Big Name Companies Using Ruby on Rails - While this sort of list is nice to crow about (how many times have you seen “our software is in use by 450 of the Fortune 500″?), it’s ultimately uninformative unless you know what “using” means. A huge company has lots of corners where a single Rails project can sneak in without meaning jack about corporate acceptance.
- Google Visualization API - It’s a good day for big companies to be opening access to useful code. There are some neat ways to display data available here with relatively low pain.
Looks like I may not starve to death this year after all. That would be welcome evidence that the universe is listening to me.
- Script.aculo.us - Offline Docs: - The contents of the Script.aculo.us wiki reformatted as CHM and PDF. (via Thomas Fuchs)
- Ruby In Steel 1.1 Now Available! - An upgrade for folks working with Rails in the Visual Studio shell on Windows.
- Google Analytics Plugin - A simple way to hook up Analytics to a Rails application.
In case it hasn’t been blindingly obvious, I’m ready to start talking to folks about Rails contracting. If you’ve got work on the web that needs doing, let’s chat.
- Sneak Peek: What We Built While You Were At RailsConf - The folks behind Lighthouse and Mephisto are working on a Rails-backed web-based Subversion browser.
- Komodo IDE 4.1 -This half-price promo is marked as being for RailsConf attendees, but they don’t seem to be verifying and the promo code is hanging right out on the web page. $147.50 instead of $295 for this Rails IDE.
- The Rails Documentation Project - Site tracking the big community-funded overhaul of the Rails API docs and associated projects.
- A Guide to Testing the Rails - Big tutorial on Rails testing, if you’re still not Doing The Right Thing.
- “Backhoe” - Large-scale Second Life terraforming tool. Only useful if you’re investing crazy amounts of money.
- Generate Google sitemap with Rails and RXML - Especially useful if you’re serving pages in frames.
