Planning on spending some time expanding my homepage for a couple of weeks. Good chance to get to know Sinatra again.

• Git v1.7 - Going to stick with posting only major releases of Git in the future.
• Congratulations - Not technical, but a good example of how BDD works.
• My Watch List, Into 2010 - What are you watching for 2010?

Looking forward to the weekend again.

• Using Bundler in Real Life - Some recommended workflow tips.
• Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future - Good tips for Rails 3 if you have written a plugin or two.
• False positive XSS in Chrome - Not Rails specific but if your app uses a bookmarklet it might be worth reading.
• How to Build an Unobtrusive Login System in Rails - A detailed tutorial by Nettuts.
• Git v1.6.6.2 - New release of Git if you're DVCS inclined.

1. Git v1.6.5.3 released - A new release of the popular SCM tool is out. 
2. Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails - Parts 5 and 6 of the series are now out.
3. Better Ruby Idioms - It's articles like this that give me a better understanding of Ruby.
4. Config So Simple Your Mama Could Use It - Great tip for those building Rails applications.
5. What makes a good API wrapper - I haven't built an API for an application yet, but still worth the read.
6. What Are Metaclasses - Jim Weirich takes on the definition of Metaclasses in relation to Ruby.

1. Easy Version Control with Git - Nettuts gives you an introduction to a great scm tool.
2. The Ruby & Rails Ecosystem White Paper - Just in case you were hiding under a rock this week.

1. The Complete Class - I haven't though much about class design since I started Ruby, so it was good to read this post on the Ruby Best Practices blog.
2. GitProductive - LOC might not be a good measure of how productive you are, but it does give a good indication of progress when your refactoring.
3. Devise - An interesting authentication solution for your Rails applications.
4. Setting up a Mac to work with Git and Github - Great guide to getting started with Github.

1. Ruby on Rails: Testing Out Edge Rails - If you haven't taken the jump to using edge Rails then this is a great little tutorial to get you going.
2. Clickistrano - This is a Sinatra app that allows you to deploy your Github projects remotely. Great example of what can be done with the Sinatra DSL.
3. Git Breezily Handles Our 500,000-line Enterprise Java Project - Yeah it's not Ruby, but Alain O'Dea's post on using Git in the enterprise highlights the fact that open source tools and frameworks are ready to be used in the enterprise. It's good to see that SCM's like Git are making inroads in the enterprise. 

1. How do you use named_scopes? - A quick look at the changes in named_scope for Rails 2.3
2. Pro Git Book - Another book to add to the reading list.
3. El Dorado - A community web application written in Rails. 
4. Mystery Guest - Good post on the Thoughtbot blog about using test patterns.

1. Introduction to Git Part 2: Branches - The Quite Useful blog continues its’ series a look at branches in Git.
2. JSONQuerying Your Rails Responses - This looks like a start of new project to watch for on GitHub.
3. Validating form_tag in ActiveRecord - A simple solution to adding a validation to something like a contact us form.
4. Google Charts gem - I’m looking to use this for a Sinatra app to display some charts for Twitter data.

1. Taking Things Too Far: REST - Some good opinions (I think) on restful design and why it’s not always the best solution.
2. Introduction to GIT - Quite Useful starts a new series of posts looking at the popular version control system, Git.
3. Simple Web Services with Rails - Some great little curl snippets that let you test the web services on your Rails application.