It was a pretty busy weekend in the Rails world (and other spots that I hang out online).

  • File Downloads Done Right - Koz walks you through managing big downloads without blocking your Rails processes.

  • Sprockets - New Ruby library for managing JavaScript source files. I probably need to dig into this in my copious spare time.

  • Entifyr - Instant conversion of random bits of text to ISO-8859-1 encoded web safe content.

  • Mixing Cucumber with Test::Unit/Shoulda - An interesting bit of BDD crossover.

  • jQuery 1.3.2 - Maintenance release that includes some good-looking performance improvements.

  • limerick_rake - Collection of useful Rake tasks from ThoughtBot.

  • RedCloth 4.1.9 - Now with Ruby 1.9 support.

  • Setting up the whole Rails stack from a single Debian meta package in 10 minutes - With the help of Phusion's debgem service.

  • Passenger-Stack - Sprinkle scripts to quickly provision a Rails server. (via Ruby Inside)

  • Arcadia - Lightweight open source Ruby IDE (no Rails tie-ins yet, it looks like).