• RubyGems 2.0.3 Released - With fixes for some earlier 2.x breakage.
• WebSockets on Rails 4 and Ruby 2 - How to do it.
• A Simplified Query Interface for Relationships in Active Record 4 - Some syntactic sugar that you may have missed.
• Your Code May Be Elegant - But mine f***ing works. Amen to that.
• Future of Open Source Survey 2013 - Just in case you want to throw in your two cents' worth.
• Font Inspector in Firefox Nightly - Yeah, I know all you cool kids are using Chrome. I'm not.

Week of March 4 - March 10, 2013

As you'd expect at this point in the cycle, commits are slowing down, and most are regression or bug fixes, or documentation tweaks. Not gonna be many new features for a while, I expect.

• b3373908 allows turning off transactions inside of a particular migration so that you can run SQL queries that can't be transactionalized.

• loads.in - Easy interface to worldwide speed checking for your website.
• A Practical Guide to Using Signed Ruby Gems - Part 2: Heroku - With a patched buildpack. Alas, the signing system just really isn't robust enough to be useful yet.
• stripe_event - Rails engine for integration with Stripe.
• Upgrading Rails: Gems Extracted in Rails 4 - Thorough list from Andy Lindeman.

• 2.0.2 Released - Of RubyGems, that is.
• Rails 3.2.13.rc2 has been released! - Last chance to kick the tires before it becomes official.
• CoffeeScript Rails Source Maps - Didn't take long to get that integrated to Rails.

• Phusion Passenger 4.0 Release Candidate 4 - Moving right along with plenty of bug fixes.
• Strong Parameters in Rails 4 - An introduction.
• Tabs on Rails - Gem for creating navigation menus and tabs.

• Visualizing memory leaks in Ruby - By patching ObjectSpace and watching them happen.
• Introducing BitNami Cloud Launchpad: Demo Your Favorite Apps in the Cloud for Free - One click launchers for a whole mess of open source projects.
• Zepto 1.0 - Full release of this "jQuery-compatible micro-library for modern browsers."
• Optimising a slow build? You're solving the wrong problem - Though depending on your app it may be the only problem you can solve.
• A Practical Guide to Using Signed Ruby Gems - Part 1:Bundler - Including a tool for seeing which trust policies are currently available to your app depending on the gems you're using.
• CoffeeScript Source Maps - Included as of CS 1.6.0.

Week of February 26 - March 3, 2013

The big news, of course, is the release of Rails 4.0 Beta 1. If you haven't paid much attention yet, now's the time to get familiar with the outline of things to come.

• 202041e7 is the actualy 4.0.0.beta1-tagged commit. Final change: updating the required version of bundler.
• 40f1642b adds more stylish default pages for 404, 422, and 500 errors.
• 29387545 adds unscope to the relation chain - I can think of a few spots where I could have used that in my current app.

• Brakeman 1.9.3 Released - With Slim and HAML 4.0 support, better reporting, and more.
• jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 Released - Just what you want if you're ready to kick IE 6/7/8 users to the curb.
• Spectrum - jQuery colorpicker that just works with HTML5 color input controls, and degrades gracefully when it needs to.
• Bootstrap 2.3.1 released - A handful of bugfixes.
• OAuth1, OAuth2, OAuth…? - Egor Homakov picks apart OAuth and isn't impressed with what he finds.
• Condi - Business logic in Rails to make it easier to implement conditions in views.

• loader.io - Free load-testing application from the makers of SendGrid.
• Gridhook - Rails engine that provides an endpoint for incoming SendGrid events.

• Phusion Passenger 4.0 Release Candidate 2 - Out now or soon, depending on your support level. Note that they're not supporting Ruby 2.0 yet due to ruby bugs.
• Hobo 2.0.0 released! - Another version out after a long beta cycle.
• Nice Nice JPG! - "The only image placeholder service on the web bringing you nothing but Vanilla Ice jpgs."

• We use Trello - Another take on how to do it right.
• Getting started with Ruby 2.0 and Rails 4.0.0 beta 1 - Notes on getting past some of the rough edges.
• Installing Rails - Detailed notes on 3.2.12 and 4.0 on various systems.
• Harness - Connect ActiveSupport::Notifications to external services.
• Lovebird is ready for beta testing - Interesting looking Thunderbird add-on to make your email people-centric.
• Dashboards for Graphite - Various alternatives to make your tracking pretty.
• One does not simply…(Turbolinks edition) - Yeah, I'm not to thrilled with the idea of Turbolinks myself.
• Turbolinks Compatibility - Tutorials on getting various things working if you do switch to Turbolinks.
• Coding Confessional - "Anonymous Confessions from Programmers."

Yes, there's a new Rails beta. Watch out, world.

• Rails 4.0: Beta 1 released! - It's out, with all sorts of changes. Definitely budget plenty of time for upgrading and testing.
• Literate Ruby - Inspired by Literate CoffeeScript.
• unrefine - Get rid of refinements from Ruby 2.0, so you don't have to figure out this "experimental" feature. Or perhaps you'd prefer safe unrefine, which uses refinements to do the job.
• Maintenance policy for Ruby on Rails - What you should expect from various versions.
• Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough: The Best Bits - From Peter Cooper.
• How to Use Trello Effectively (What Worked for Our Small Team) - One point of view. Some day I should write up how we use it.
• Hook.js - "Pull to refresh. For the web."
• The easiest way to test Ruby 2.0 - The Bitnami Rubystack has been upgraded.

Weeks of February 11 - February 25, 2013

• 9d9b22f4 is another tweak to loading, reversing some earlier decisions. Autoload paths and eager load paths will be separate for Rails 4.0 after all.
• c9909db9 drops XML parsing from ActionDispatch. If you need it, you can pick upt he new actionpack-xml_parser gem.
• d3688e02 removes the auto-explain option for ActiveRecord. You can still call explicitly ActiveRecord::Relation#explain. I'll miss this, but I know most Rails folks prefer not to think about the database.

Lots of new releases to report this morning. I guess this is what Rubyists do on the weekend.

• Ruby 2.0.0-p0 is released - The big one, the first stable Ruby 2.0 release. Pretty safe to say Ruby 1.8 is dead now.
• RubyGems 2.0.0 Released - You probably want to switch if you're moving to Ruby 2.0. Don't forget to grab a prerelease copy of Bundler 1.3.0 at the same time.
• rdoc 4.0.0 - Supporting the display of pages (such as readme files) and Markdown formatting.
• Fix OpenSSL certificate errors on Ruby 2.0 - A somewhat dangerous way around a new security issue.
• Rails 3.2.x is now compatible with Ruby 2.0.0 - Thanks to a bunch of backports from master. I guess we can expect a Rails 3.2 release soon.
• Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 - The Pragmatic guys have updated the standard book on the subject too.
• CoffeeScript 1.5.0 - New release including literate CoffeeScript.
• #learnchef - Home for OpsCode Chef learning resources.
• A Capybara Future - Some thoughts about where the Capybara API might go from here.
• Ruby 1.9.3-p392 is released - And yeah, to stay secure you should upgrade.
• jQuery Learning Center - Another site for improving your web work.
• Emmet - Formerly Zen Coding, this editor plugin for quickly writing code is nearing a 1.0 release.
• sorting - Gem for sorting things with some extra bells and whistles.
• I mortgaged my future with a Mac - I feel pretty much this way myself.
• The Next SourceForge - Looks like SourceForge is actually a viable alternative to GitHub for open source work these days.
• Promiscuous - PubSub framework for replicating data across Ruby applications.
• Debuggex - Online tester for JavaScript regular expressions.

• TextMate Theme Editor - In-browser (Chrome only) application for editing TM/ST2 themes.
• sekrets - Command line tool to manage encrypted files and settings for Rails applications.
• Git merge vs. rebase - Some workflow and history tips for working with feature branches.
• Don't use Git - An impassioned defense of Subversion.

• Redactor - WYSIWYG jQuery editor.
• Song of GitHub - Render GitHub contribution charts as MIDI jazz output.
• Introducing RESS - Gem to help build mobile Rails applications.
• TrelloToPivotal - Script to transfer data from one to the other.
• Handle inbound Email in any Rack Application - The incoming! gem smooths out differences between various push mail APIs.

• typeahead.js - Autocomplete library from Twitter.
• Google Apps Script - "JavaScript cloud scripting language" for Google Apps.

• AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef - New management tool from Amazon.
• Instrumental - Real-time app monitoring with pretty dashboards.
• sublimetext_indentxml - Useful ST2 plugin if you're forced to deal with XML.
• Capybara, synchronize, and monkeys that climb ivory towers - Making Capybara wait for jQuery.

• Introducing Boxen - Open source tool for automating Mac setup, from the folks at GitHub.
• Working with Ruby Threads - Another ebook on the way.
• pre-commit - Flexible pre-commit hooks for git.
• review - Easy screenshots of running sites in multiple resolutions.
• Running a SaaS? Here are some services you'll find useful - Offload stuff so that you can concentrate on your core code.
• Hashie 2.0 - This set of extensions to ruby's hash has grown quite a bit since the last time I looked.
• Chef: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Cookbooks, Environments, Roles - Some guidance on a complex tool.
• Scratchpad - Instant-rendering HTML/CSS playground.

• Amazon Redshift - Just in case you need a petabyte of storage off the shelf.
• rubysec-announce - New mailing list for ruby-related security announcements. Sponsored by Rubysec, who are also planning a database of advisories.
• Graylog2 v0.10.0 - New version of this scaleable log server.