Intreresting stuff:

• KirbyBase, a small, pure-Ruby, database management system.
• Ackbar, an ActiveRecord adapter for KirbyBase
• Chapters 6 and 7 of ‘Agile Web Development with Rails’, using Ackbar/KirbyBase instead of MySQL

In general: if you have Ruby, you can have Rails too, no need to install some special database, webserver etc. Pure Rails :)

Found via Rails Tips , link point to TextDrive weblog

• Minimize the amount of FCGI listeners
• Use caching
• NEVER run “development” on FastCGI for more than 1-2 hours
• Observe your memory consumption
• Rotate your logs
• Write and run unit tests
• Check for memory leaks when you are developing
• Be careful with iterations
• Watch the Rails TRAC for bug reports
• Be vigilant when restarting your server

Use RailsHelp for quick searching through the Rails API docs.

Rules for better Rails programming :

• Two spaces, no tabs
• Blocks use { }, if they are one-liners, otherwise do … end
• Surround equal signs with spaces, @myvar = ‘foo’, not @myvar=’foo’
• Surround hash assignments with spaces, :foo => ‘bar’, not :foo=>‘bar’
• Class.method(my_arg)—not method( my_arg ) or method my_arg

We have some new books :) (still PDF only)

Some people on the Rails ML was worried what’s happend to the Globalize plugin . It’s not dead, just moved to another home.

Planet Aragon has been using Globalize for a few months now on a few client projects that require support for ~30 languages … It’s a really clean way to integrate i18n into your application without cluttering it. It even works in PostgreSQL!

A small fast HTTP server written in (mostly) Ruby that can be used to host web frameworks directly with HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI.

Examples already working with Camping .

See also: Mongrel RDoc pages

In Rails 1.1, the :has_many method has a couple of new parameters that allow us to effectively bridge an intermediate object…A basic bridging is as simple as adding a new :has_many method on the two main objects, adding a :through parameter which specifies the intermediate object…

RailsCron is a way to execute background tasks using your Ruby on Rails environment. The RailsCron object is an ActiveRecord, so you can manipulate it in familiar ways.

• RailsCron SVN Repository

We had the same problem with Reverse Proxying SSL Connections To Rails . Needed apache for subversion and lighttpd for rails projects.

See also: lighttpd, apache 2 and rails

Libtap is a library for testing C code. It implements the Test Anything Protocol , which is emerging from Perl’s established test framework.