Official CitrusByte Blog » Automate Your Rails Deployment. some interesting scripts for automating provisioning too.

mad.ly – Rails 2.1 Time Zone Support: An Overview. this came in handy today. also, who knew that Saskatchewan has its own time zone that doesn’t observe DST?

Deploying Rails on Dreamhost with Phusion Passenger. that looks pretty simple.

RubyFringe Roundup: The Best Ruby Conference Ever?. “I hope that RubyFringe does for web conferences what Rails did for web development; show others that there is a better way” - Mark McGranaghan of TechCrunch. hell ya.

spain, rubyfringe, iphone

I’m back from Spain. It was awesome. Barcelona is my new favorite city. Also, the Citroen C2 is amazingly roomy for a tiny car and has an insane turning radius. Hopefully I’ll steal Auriol’s photos soon and you can all see them.

I landed at 9pm on Friday and headed immediately to the opening night event of RubyFringe, Unspace’s punk-rock tech conference. The whole thing was an unmitigated success (in my humble opinion) and I was very glad that everyone I asked seemed to agree. All of the presentations ranged from “awesome” to “best I’ve ever seen”. The food and parties set a new bar for tech conferences (in my humble opinion). Though lots of people helped out, my fellow unspacer Meghann deserves an insane amount of applause for doing such an amazing job organizing and planning the event. Checkout what people are saying about RubyFringe on Twitter here and tons of photos on flickr here.

And now that I’m back, I went out and bought a 16GB iPhone. $90 a month to the man (Ted Rogers). Maybe I should buy like $1000 worth of Rogers stock just so I feel like I’m not getting completely screwed by this GSM monopoly.

Rethink: Don’t hire a team, form a rock band!. pete on “hiring”.

Railscasts - Selenium. i should try adding this to a project just to see if i find real value with it.

LinkedIn has scaled Rails to 1 billion page views per month. i wonder what their hosting bill is?

Rolling with Rails 2.1 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1. need to read up on what they did to migrations

Astrails - Being Lazy with Ruby. lazy evals for expensive calls in ruby.

James on Software: Gems I’ve Known and Loved #1: Expectations. interesting ruby testing framework.

quick update

I’m back in Toronto now. I’ll be posting some photos of the road trip as soon as Sean sends them to me. I still have my Seattle cell phone number and might just keep it until Rogers releases the iPhone. Also, I shall be at the Toronto Rails Project Night tonight with fellow unspace people who will be telling people why RubyFringe is a must-attend conference.

New Relic : Serious about Rails performance. another rails performance / monitoring provider.

GitHub RubyGems. github now has a ruby gem server. gem install anyone’s branch of just about anything. very cool.

Building a Social Network Site in Rails | Jim Neath. big list of plugins you would find useful if you were building a social site.

Software as a Service Rails Kit. write code, not billing code.

Overview — Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails). it has officially launched. i should see if this will work on 1and1.

thoughtbot: Shoulda testing plugin. rails plugin for testing. seems a lot lighter than rspec.

Couldn’t Be At MountainWest RubyConf? Watch The Presentations Now!. some decent looking talks lined-up.

Restful Authentication with all the bells and whistles - Rails Forum. a very thorough article on authentication in rails.