I spent much of yesterday doing an archive & install on OS X 10.5 on my main dev box, then reinstalling all the gems I use. Took a while to get everything set up, but it was worth it to not have two installs of ruby and two battling sets of gems. I think.

  • Rails 2.0.2: Some new defaults and a few fixes - Here's the official announcement of yesterday's minor Rails release.

  • Rails 2.0.2 released, so what’s new? - Another take on the new features.

  • Sqliteman - With Sqlite3 being suddenly the default Rails database (as of Rails 2.0.2), I spent some time looking around for Sqllite GUIs that work under OS X. (Yeah, I'm a wimp that way). This one has the advantage of being free, though it's not real well-organized and has that Qt look to it.

  • RazorSQL - Commercial database query tool that claims Sqlite compatibility via JDBC. Haven't tried it.

  • SQLite Manager 0.2.11 - Sqlite database tool implemented as a Firefox add-on. Actually not bad.

  • What’s Coming in Instant Rails 2.0 and Beyond - The Road Map - Plans from the new project maintainer.

  • Installing ruby mysql gem in OSX 10.5 - I decided I could do without building everything from source this time around. MySQL was the trickiest to get cooking from a download & gem install.

  • Ruport 1.4 Preview Release - If you're using Ruport for reporting you probably want to have a look at this.

  • RSpec Textmate Bundle errors - I had a good deal of trouble getting RSpec to work correctly within TextMate. This thread describes the symptom, but the fixes there did not work for me. Ultimately I had to checkout the RSpec trunk svn, build that, and symlink the resulting TextMate bundle in to make sure everything was synched.

  • Setting up autotest to use Growl - A nice little extra if you're doing continuous testing.

  • Bazaar - Distributed version control system with an easy migration path from subversion.