I have three Rails Web hosting related domains available:

I've joined forces with Obie Fernandez on the Ruby section at InfoQ, a prime news site for the enterprise software development community. The Ruby news at InfoQ has more of an enterprise feel to it than that here at RubyInside and is focused at team leaders, development managers, enterprise developers, etc, so there's less hacking, but more high-level Ruby stuff.

After writing a basic routine to print all prime numbers between 1 and 10,000 in Ruby, Pat Eyler found it took almost 3 seconds to complete, and seeked out a way to make it faster. Enter RubyInline (covered previous at RubyInside).. With RubyInline he added a basic C function into the Ruby mix and knocked down the time required to 0.3 seconds.

It's time to bring in a regular feature.. Troll Of The Month. Every month or so there appears to be a new article circulating that explains why 'Ruby sucks' or why you shouldn't use Rails to develop serious applications. Most of the time, they're unbalanced and poor explained, even if the author has some valid points.

Tomasz Węgrzanowski (aka Taw) has developed a Lisp interpreter embedded in Ruby called RLisp. It's early days and ultra-alpha-quality, but it's a cool project. You can find the source code here, and Taw is offering free beer for the first 10 developers to write a cool RLisp program. RLisp already has some basic OO support (and even HTTP support) so it's fun to play with.

_why announces a release of a new UTF-8 library (which adds UTF-8 support to Ruby, without using KCODE) by Nikolai Weibull. _why has also packaged it up (unofficially) into a gem to make it even easier to install (not all of us use git). Here's some demonstration code:

Scott Laird has announced the release of Typo 4.0, the first release of the original Rails powered blogging tool this year: