Double Shot #191

I spent a bit of time playing with Google App Engine over the weekend. One thing that hasn't been widely reported is that it's trivial to set up a folder to serve files statically. This means, I think, that App Engine might make a good asset host for Rails apps looking for distributed storage.

• First class vendor/gems - A variant approach to storing the required gems with a Rails project.


• Hobo 0.7.5 Released - Better documentation and other goodies.


• CapGun - Email notifications for Capistrano deployments.


• Deferred requests with merb, ebb, and thin - Fine-tuning the deployment stack.


• Radiant CMS 0.6.5 "Chisel" Release - Lots of action in this Rails CMS project. Another thing I need to dig into someday.


• Symbols Are Not Pretty Strings - Josh Susser says we're all using too many symbols.


• Preview Releases: Net::SSH, Net::SSH::Multi - With news that a new Capistrano release is coming soon.


• ERb Syntax highlighting in gedit - I don't expect to be hacking Rails on Linux again soon, but if you do this could come in handy.


• ActsAsOptions - Plugin to simplify generating option lists for <select> tags.


• Living on the edge (of Rails) #17 - A fairly quiet week for Rails development.