Ruby-on-Rails

Ext JS Powered Administration System Generator for Rails 2.0

(photo credit: The Consumerist - CC Attribution 2.0)

Note: This post was drafted before DHH's "The deal with shared hosts" post, but as it covers similar ground, it's worth reading too. DHH's opinion appears to be that shared hosts should put up or shut up, but I disagree and suggest this is something we need to solve as a community.

Anvil (Ruby GUI App Framework) Gets an Update

The Future of Web Services Presentation

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Control Library

Ramaze is a simple, light weight (in a good way!), modular Web framework developed in Ruby. Like Rails, and unlike some of its newer competitors, such as Sinatra, Ramaze sticks to the MVC (Model, View, Controller) paradigm, making it more like a lighter, more modular Merb-alike. Ramaze is already a year old, and one thing that the official Ramaze Web site does right is provide lots of example code and documentation. The framework has also seen four releases in the last six months, a sure sign that someone cares about it.

jRails - Seamlessly Redefines Rails Helpers to Use jQuery Instead of Prototype

Robert Dempsey of non-profit Rails advocacy group, Rails For All, writes in to remind everyone about the acts_as_conference Rails conference taking place in Florida in February 2008 and to let us know that registration is now open. Tickets cost $100 (plus $2.50 booking fee). Obie Fernandez and Dan Benjamin are the keynoter speakers, but there are many others. Too many to name individually here, although Charles Nutter (JRuby), Ezra Zygmuntowicz (Merb), and Evan Phoenix (Rubinius) are particular standouts. Anyway, if you fancy getting some winter sun while doing the Rails schmooze, hit it up. It doesn't sound like you're going to be bored at this one.

As long time readers will know, Ruby Inside has its own jobs board at jobs.rubyinside.com. It doesn't just have jobs posted only by Ruby Inside readers, but also jobs scraped from all over the Web with many Ruby and Rails related jobs being picked up every day (e.g. how does being a Ruby Engineer in Los Angeles take your fancy?).

Bundle-Fu is a new plugin by Tim Harper that can bundle CSS and JavaScript content from separate files into one file each automatically to reduce the amount of <scrip> and <link> includes required on the pages within your Rails applications.

Ryan Bates is being a total champ in rolling out more and more consistently good Rails related screencasts for free at RailsCasts.com. Some of the latest include: