How to rescue a project without losing your mind.

Webbynode is a very affordable VPS host (256 RAM for $15) which has great support for Rails applications.

scriptaculous replacement

Rfm brings your FileMaker data to Ruby with elegance and speed. Now your Ruby scripts and Rails applications can talk directly to your FileMaker server with a syntax that just feels right.

Capistrano recipes for database backups before migrations, passenger deployment strategy, release tagging in Git repos.

Debugging toolbar for Rack applications implemented as middlewa

Anonymous Pro (2009) is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind.

I just released a gem to find image dimensions and type information fast.

Trample is a more flexible load simulator. Instead of a static list of urls, trample's configuration language is ruby. Using ruby's blocks (lambda functions), it's possible to randomize the requests that get made in each thread, as well as the user that logs in.

Or, you can test your Rack application (or Sinatra, or Rails, or Merb) using arbitrary HTTP client libraries, to check interoperability.

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

This article describes a technique for overriding the equals method that preserves the contract of equals even when subclassses of concrete classes add new fields.

Asynchronous JavaScript and CSS, also known as CSSHttpRequest, is a method of URI-encoding data in 2KB chunks split over several CSS rules with a modified data URI scheme. Because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy, no service proxy is required.

As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts.

The catch comes when you look at the behavior, and you realize that there is hardly any behavior on these objects, making them little more than bags of getters and setters

Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog, Flay, Rcov, Reek, Roodi, Subversion, Git, and Rails built-in stats task to create a series of reports. It's designed to integrate easily with CruiseControl.rb by placing files in the Custom Build Artifacts folder.

A collection of useful utilities for Capistrano deployments

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.

Effortless backend interface for Ruby on Rails applications. (Admin scaffold generator.)