As promised, another report on what I've been up to in my open source time. It wasn't a super productive week, but I found a few broken windows to fix, which made me happy. The details:

  • larkistrano - My planned gem of Capistrano extensions for Rails 3 and up (mostly based on the rubaidhstrano code I've been maintaining) is moving along. It's not ready for prime time yet though. Hopefully I'll get to a version that can actually deploy things over the weekend and then start dogfooding it in my own projects.
  • Rubygems Guides - I did some more work on cleaning up and extending the Command Reference this week, including adding the various gem options and fixing an escaping issue. I also added a new Plugins page to the site. As a result of this flurry of activity, I'm now a committer for rubygems.
  • What's New in Edge Rails #3 - I plan to continue running this series indefinitely, especially because it helps me keep tabs on the coming changes.
  • rubygems - While I was working on the Command Reference, I realized that the rubygems help for 'gem lock' referred to it as 'gemlock'. That was easy to fix.

So…for the first 12 days of 2012, anyhow, I've managed to give back to the open source world at least a bit each day. Care to join me?