Double Shot #301

I seem to be hanging out in #rubyonrails on IRC these days...mikeg1a if you're hunting for me there.

• Rails Rumble 2008 - If you've got October 18-19 free, there's another "build an application in a weekend" contest coming up.


• Using hoptoad in open source project deployments - A general approach to keeping a separate deploy branch in git to hold confidential information.


• Rails Take Five - Five Questions with Karmen Blake - Another in the Five Runs series of Rails interviews.


• RubyGems 1.3.0 - You might want to go slower than me on installing this version; it deprecates some code that Rails uses, resulting in annoying warnings on script/generate operations.


• Replacing Braid or Piston (for Git) with 40 Lines of Rake - An approach to doing subtree merge control for Rails plugins. If you use this, make sure to include a trailing slash on the destination when doing a git:subtree:merge operation. Took me forever to figure that out.


• Status Update: Merb 1.0 - Coming October 11.


• Creating Valid Records with Populator and Faker - For filling up your test database with stuff.


• RR - Test double framework for ruby code. If your current method of writing mocks and stubs is too verbose, this will help. (It has other good features too).


• TankEngine - Plugin to build iPhone-optimized Rails user interfaces.


• Gash - Access a git repository as a ruby hash. Wacky. (via RubyFlow)