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Shaping up to be another busy week; fortunately the weekend was good for catching up this time.
- iCHM - Nice-looking CHM reader for OS X. Unfortunately I’m not finding that its search works as well as that in Chamonix.
- REST, I Just Don’t Get It - Heretical musings from Damien Katz. The comments are well worth reading. Also worth reading is Dare Obasanjo’s Explaining REST to Damien Katz.
- Use MacVim and rails.vim plugin to edit your Rails work - An alternative if you don’t want to drink the TextMate koolaid.
- GitHub RubyGems - It really is dead simple to publish a gem via github.
- GemPlugins: A Brief Introduction to the Future of Rails Plugins - And it’s easy to convert an existing plugin to a gem, too.
- App Update - Dashboard widget to track software freshness on your Mac.
I started banging together another plugin to release last night. Hopefully I’ll get it out there in the next couple of days.
- New to Git? - GitHub points to a bunch of tutorials.
- Custom 404 Action in Rails - A dynamic approach.
- Introducing Shadow, a Rails Plugin - For maintaining Facebook-style activity lists.
- Tutorial: Creating Plugins in Rails - Useful despite a few typos.
Having clients on the far side of the Atlantic means occasionally having to get up early to deal with an emergency. Ah well, that’s why I make the big bucks, right?
- Howto: Write a plugin - Brief outline for the aspiring Rails developer.
- vlad version 1.2.0 has been released! - Less-complex alternative to Capistrano for application deployment.
Time to repost another few links for my own reference and yours.
- I’m on Rails: Coding Statistics. - I ended up swiping pieces of this to do outbound link tracking in an application I’m working on.
- rails plugin list - More plugins than you can shake a stick at, along with where to grab them from. You have to guess their use from their names, though.
- Installing Xen on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - the complete newbie’s guide - I hope not to have to tackle this any time soon, but if I do, this looks like a good unified guide.
A few links that I cumulated over the weekend.
- Ruby Screenshot of the Week #11: Rails Debugging - A teaser for what’s coming in NetBeans; this is some of what Tim Bray showed off at RailsConf. (via dzone)
- Ruby on Rails plugins - A new attempt to build a directory of plugins, but it seems unlikely to replace the Agile Web Development Rails Plugin Directory .
- SQL Injection - A security issue I understand plenty well, but here’s an article about it in the context of Rails.
- savage beast - A Rails engine version of the Beast forum software.
