Double Shot #276

Thanks to the FiveRuns folks for featuring me in their TakeFive interview series, and welcome to new readers.

• Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The Easy Way - Detailed instructions. With EBS, AWS is reaching some sort of tipping point.


• How to Fix your Rails Helpers - Some suggestions on refactoring.


• WICE Assignment Lists - Multi-select listbox interface for HABTM relations in Rails.


• Scout Checks in on Passenger - I've been looking for a Passenger-aware Rails monitoring solution. Not sure I'm ready to pay for Scout, though. (via RubyFlow)


• rspec_validations_expectations gem released - Check that your models contain the validations you want, without hitting the database to test Rails-generated code.


• DoS Vulnerability in REXML - Time to patch your Rails applications.


• Ruby Amazon E-Commerce REST Service API   (amazon-ecs) - I used this to hook up some book stuff on my slowly-rebuilding personal site. It worked well.


• Maatkit - A batch of low-level MySQL tools.


• Everyday git With 20 Commands or So - The basics, though you don't even need to memorize this much to get started.


• ZiYa - Spiffy SWF-based charting gem. Now at version 2.