We're taking a brief break from the regular "Interesting Ruby Tidbits" posts to focus on Rails™ only for a change. Rails has just made it to version 2.0 so there's been plenty of action in the community. Here are some of the highlights:

I love finding a library that does exactly what it claims to do, and does it in the simplest way possible. Faker by Ben Curtis is a Ruby library, packaged as a Ruby Gem, that generates "fake data" for you, in the form of names, telephone number, e-mail addresses, addresses, and so forth.

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Control Library

The following article is a guest article written by John Philip Green of Savvica, a Toronto based educational technology company whose development efforts are focused on Ruby and Rails.