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.

Git with Rails Tutorial on Vimeo. also about how to use it with deployment.

Riding Rails: Rails is moving from SVN to Git. hosted on github and using lighthouse for tracking. git is clearly the new hotness.

Ambling. rails plugin to easily generate data (and config) for amcharts.

Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: Dirty Objects. i’d find this even more useful as a jquery plugin.

Ryan’s Scraps: What’s New in Edge Rails: Gem Dependencies. that’s handy.

Barking Iguana: Getting started with Rails 2.0. good quick-start guide to getting rails2, git, and a dead simple app up and runnign on your mac.

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Using SimpleDB and Rails in No Time with ActiveResource. it has to create an actual proxy to service requests. no caching (i can see) to address the “eventual consistency” of SDB.

Scout - Web Monitoring and Reporting Software. host monitoring solution that uses ruby.