Rails 3 Reading Material. list of blog posts with info about Rails 3. Handy since every post seems to be outdated 2 weeks later.

Active Record Query Interface 3.0. lots of syntax changes to activerecord for rails 3.

Revamped Routes in Rails 3 | Rizwan Reza. i have some pretty nasty route files in my projects. this is a welcome change.

Mongoid. another mongo/ruby library. similar syntax to activerecord.

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks // RailsTips by John Nunemaker. points out 7 very useful features of mongo.

NoSQL with MySQL in Ruby – Friendly. takes the FriendFeed approach of serializing to json in a single column and using seperate tables to build indexes. there’s a write-up on the author’s website with quite a few question/comments.

mkelly12’s google_closure_compiler – GitHub. rails plugin for optimizing your javascript.

myronmarston’s mail_safe at master – GitHub. gem for rerouting email in development environments. i’m pretty sure if i just think hard enough, every gem i need just magically appears on github.

Building a Twitter Filter With Sinatra, Redis, and TweetStream. from the title you’d think the article was just autogenerated from popular words on a bunch of ruby rss feeds.

Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push – igvita.com. nginx is certified badass.

Make your shoulda tests faster with fast_context. need to try this out as i use both shoulda and factory_girl.

Shopify Application Store. shopify launched a platform making store add-ons kinda like salesforce.com. yet one more reason to use shopify for your online vending.

Heroku is production ready. hands-off Rails hosting. some interesting pricing options plus nice add-ons like background jobs, cron jobs, etc.

RubyFringe presents… FutureRuby. unspace will be hosting another conference this summer. you would be foolish to miss it.

Golden Gate Ruby Conference. unspace shall be there.

Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Value Store – igvita.com. another crazy article from iilya.

CouchFoo: Like ActiveRecord, but for CouchDB. though it’s odd that it has a dependency on another couchDB library (CouchRest). CouchDB 0.9a can now also be easily installed via macports.

Engine Yard : Solo. get engine yard builds, tools, and support on EC2 instances. interesting choice for web hosting.

iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource; Making communication between the iPhone and a Rails web-service pain-free.

Jump Start Credit Card Processing: How it works, what you need, with Ruby & JavaScript examples. info on getting credit card processing going in Rails with ActiveMerchant.