Double Shot #806

Looks like it's gonna be another busy week - not that the weekend was very quiet either.

• "middleware" violates English grammar rules - Amen to this. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to find writing about "rack middlewares" to be borderline illiterate.
• It would be nice if you could avoid bundling 3rd party libraries - More fun from GitHub issues. There's a generational divide in Open Source between Rubyists and Linux maintainers.
• Patched ruby 1.9.3-p0 for 30% faster rails boot - Via installing a bunch of pull requests that core ruby team hasn't accepted. What's past the bleeding edge?
• End of Firefox Support for Windows 2000 - Alas, the build chain can't handle it any more.
• Using capybara as a javascript capable replacement for Mechanize - At some point I may have to stop waiting for a Mechanize update to do this and move over some of my own code.
• Testing File Downloads with Capybara and ChromeDriver - There's always some edge case that requires hair-tearing.
• Devise 2.0 released - With a bunch of cleaned up code removing compatibility with old versions. But the migration path is well-documented.
• Quixey - Search engine for Apps across a variety of platforms.
• The WHY of WAT - Just because you can explain JavaScript's quirks doesn't mean they make sense.
• Gemfury - Private Gem server hosted in the cloud.
• vim-jquery-doc - Vim plugin to let you quickly look up online jQuery help.
• IcedCoffeeScript - Fork of CoffeeScript that brings await/defer keywords for asynchronous coding. Remember folks, it's turtles all the way down.
• Jekyll-Bootstrap - No muss, no fuss blogging with Jekyll and GitHub Pages.
• hollywoodr - Serve annoying bullshit content to visitors to your web site from the MPAA and RIAA.
• axlsx - Ruby generator for Office Open XML spreadsheets including charts, images, and more. There's also an ActiveRecord mixin and a blog.
• thinreports - Report designer for Ruby with a GUI and a planned generator for Rails.
• Upcoming changes to the pg gem - If you've got some time for testing, here's an easy way to contribute to open source.
• Ruby Learning - A high-level roadmap to becoming a software developer, aimed at motivated students.