Ruby genius Mauricio Fernandez has been playing with an attempt at processing Prolog using Ruby found on a Japanese coding site and has come up with tiny_prolog.rb.

I don't think the Ruby Jobs site at RubyNow gets enough link love from the community, and I want to put that right. If you haven't been there for a while, you'll be surprised. In just the last two weeks there are 30 new Ruby and Rails jobs available. That's even more than on the 37signals Jobs Board. Even better, if you're an employer you can post to the RubyNow jobs board for free, so check it out.

Jason Garber has got in touch about his new Rails plugin, form_test_helper, that makes testing forms easier than before. As the plugin's official home page has less information than the mail he sent me, I'm reproducing his mail in full as it's the useful reference so far:

Ruby Search, a project by Simon Parker, is a special Web search tool that looks through the Rails class index, Rails methods, Ruby standard libraries, and Programming Ruby and presents the results in a simple sidebar to be viewed in a frame on the right. It seems to be a bit patchy from my tests, but it's still a cool tool. (Found via ozmm)

The winners of the Rails Day have been announced. For those who haven't heard about it before, Rails Day is an annual contest in which hundreds of developers take 24 hours to develop an application.

Merb is a micro-framework (developed by Ezra Zygmuntowicz) that ties in with Mongrel and erb and provides basic controller and view templating. It's an ideal way to put together quick and simple Web applications with Ruby that don't rely on any of the fancier features offered by Rails. It does have support for ActiveRecord, however. Merb allows you to create small systems that produce dynamic requests and can interact with databases but without the significant weight of the Rails framework. Where Ruby on Rails is a Big Mac, Merb is a McNugget.