Evan Weaver has leaped to the rescue with a hotfix (installable as a gem) for the cgi.rb DoS vulnerabilities. This hotfix is ideal for those who don't want to install Ruby or patch again. Evan's site has been having some DNS issues (related to the EveryDNS outages) so I hope he doesn't mind me repeating part of his post here:

Walter Korman has released the first version of a Yahoo! Video library for Ruby. All it takes is a gem install yahoo-video and some simple code like this:

I just came across this excellent article that provides links supporting many of the benefits of Ruby on Rails. If you need to justify your use of Ruby on Rails to employers, co-workers, or even yourself, check it out. Links about performance, scalability, philosophy and evangelism are all included.

A couple of days ago, Tim Lucas wrote a cool article called "instance_eval brings sexy back" where he demonstrated how to use instance_eval to improve the usability of the match method. The downside, however, was that Tim's technique required manually defining accessor methods each time match was used.

Scott Fleckenstein has developed a plugin for Ruby on Rails called Exceptional that 'brings exception handling into the world of Rails filters'. The code speaks for itself on this one:

There's more about Amazon S3 and Marcel Molina's hot new library coming as the first day of the Ruby Advent Calendar (this Friday!), so I don't want to say too much about it yet. For anyone already enjoying this library, however, I put together a scrappy program that lets me copy files up to S3 from the command line easily: