We had a fine Christmas here, though as I spent a few minutes of it restarting stuck mongrel instances I think I need to move forward on getting monit in place today.

  • Ruby 1.9.0 is Released - The official announcement. Sheesh, I'm not done learning 1.8.x yet!

  • Ruby 1.9.0 has been released - Chu Yeow's coverage of what this means for Rails (summary: it's not time to switch yet).

  • Ruby 1.9—Right for You? - Dave Thomas points out that this is not a production release, and discusses how he's set up side-by-side installations with Ruby 1.8.x.

  • Ruport 1.4 - New release of this business reporting toolset for Ruby.

  • Paginatin' Christmas - A pile of resources around the will_paginate plugin.

  • EC2 Firefox Extension is now Open Source - Looks useful for those who are managing their infrastructure via Amazon Web Services.

  • Jungle Disk - I've been using Mozy for online backups, but for some reason that's been getting increasingly unreliable for me. Now that Jungle Disk can do automatic backups, I'm probably going to switch. The one thing I don't know is whether it's smart about only backing up changed files.

  • Triple Christmas Present - Hobo 0.7.1 with some new documentation.

  • REST In Place - AJAX in-place editor plugin designed to work with Rails RESTful controllers.