Matthew Lang // My Programming Journal

Snippets #134

Big week this week for the Rails community!

Rails 3.0: It's ready! - Lots of developers have already been using 3.0 from RC versions, but finally the official version is here. Be sure to also check out Ruby Inside for a list of 22 videos that will help you get moving along with Rails 3.0.
RVM 1.0.0 - RVM also hit a massive milestone in the last few days. RVM has made handling different versions of Ruby so much easier.
RVM - Improved support for Hudson - Continuous integration is something that has been missing in my Ruby projects, but this support for RVM in Hudson has me intrigued about trying out Hudson.
Building an Object Mapper: Override-able Accessors - A great read if you want to get started on your own object mapper. A good exercise as well for just learning more about Ruby.

Rails work has taken a back step to other work this week, but should be back into it by the weekend.

Ruby Weekly - Peter Cooper has just launched a new Ruby e-mail newsletter. If you're choosing to avoid RSS then this is a great way of getting a round up of the best bits from the community.
34 Ruby on Rails resources to get you started - You might have already seen some of these but it's still a great resource.
Ruby Koans - Want to learn Ruby in a more practical approach? Ruby Koans is a set of files that each contain tests on an aspect of the Ruby language. Your jobs is to get those tests passing in true TDD fashion.
Pragmatic Guide to Git - I've never advanced beyond the basic commands of Git, but I'm putting this on my book list for this year to learn more.

Rails 3.0 is just around the corner!

Roll your own pagination links with will_paginate and Rails 3 - A good look at doing some modding on a popular gem.
Using >= Considered Harmful - I had no idea about the "~>" for gem files.
Most Dangerous Programming Errors, 10 - 6 - Don't you just hate when your password is stored in plain text.
Upgrading to Ruby 1.9.2 using RVM - Good guide but surely the article doesn't need to be split into 7 different pages!

Happy Whyday everyone!

Heroku Plus - Allows you to use multiple Heroku accounts from the command line.
Ruby 1.9.2 released - Hot on the heels of the latest updates to 1.8.7 and 1.9.1, the newest version of Ruby provides lots of great new features.

I love that TDD catches all my silly mistakes when I'm programming.

New Releases of Ruby! - Ruby 1.9.1-p430 and Ruby 1.8.7-p302 have been released. Both include security fixes for a vulnerability with WEBrick.
CouchDB 1.0.0 Repair Tool - The repair tool for last week's bug in CouchDB has been released.
Threads (in Ruby): Enough Already - Great write-up on threads in Ruby and Rails.