Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server and back! This is bad! Bundle-fu throws it all up into a big package and sends it out all at once.

theman is a super simple "framework" that uses god/rufus-scheduler to create long running workers that do things at certain times.

Reads Active Record's validations and makes them available to live client side javascript

Heroku's architecture enables deployment with nothing but Git. Deployment is fast, simple, and just works – all you do is push code to your repo on Heroku.

Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind.

After 2 1/2 years of blood, sweat, tears, and the occasional Jägermeister, I’m finally officially announcing a project I’ve been quietly working on: state_machine.

Cache Money is a plugin for ActiveRecord that transparently provides write-through and read-through caching functionality using Memcached. With Cache Money, queries are automatically cached for you; and similarly, cache expiry happens automatically as after_save and after_destroy events.

Integrity is the angel watching over your shoulder while you code. As soon as you push your commits, it builds, runs your tests, and makes sure everything works fine.

In this presentation, I demoed Cucumber and Webrat. I also talked about Integrity and how I like to put it all together.

So, as a result, people using RESTful ideas to talk to browsers have to put the smarts back on the server. They invent new URLs which (for example) return a resource, but return it all wrapped up in the HTML needed to display it as a form for browser-based editing.

BDD/Cucumber talk by Ben Mabey.

Record Filter gives you the full power of ActiveRecord's query building tools with a heaping helping of DSL thrown in to save your Ruby-loving fingers from writing nasty SQL.

A collection of useful utilities for Capistrano deployments

Debugging toolbar for Rack applications implemented as middlewa

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

View testing that doesn't suck.

Another ActiveModel alternative.

I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string.

What Is Bloat?

Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in your specs.