Lots of links piled up over the weekend. I'll try to get something more substantive posted later.

  • The Rails Myths - The list continues to grow, though it's also generating some responding posts and general snark elsewhere.

  • Beginner's Guide to Installing Merb - Updated for Merb 1.0. Still some hoops to jump through.

  • Speeding Up Rails Development - Some suggestions from Jim Neath.

  • new plugin: acts_as_git - Connect a text or string field directly to a git repo for easy versioning.

  • 3 Ways To Build Fake Demo Data For Your Rails App - My latest for Rails Inside.

  • Rails 2.2 RC2: Last stop before final - Rails 2.2 is coming together.

  • WebKit Nightly Builds - The developer stuff in the latest WebKit builds is pretty spiffy - right-click and "inspect element".

  • A test server for Rails applications - Intended to be the Rails equivalent of RSpec's spec server.

  • Profiling Your Rails Application - Take Two - There are big advances in this area. Some day I may even understand them.

  • First, foremost and [0] - The difference between post.comments.first and post.comments[0] in Rails is subtle and surprising.