Junebug is a simple, clean, minimalist wiki intended for personal use. Built on Camping web microframework. Sqlite3 database backend. Features: Simple installation (via gems) Standalone operation. No need to run a webserver. SQL database b…

Interesting comment in Homo-Adminus Blog. Will copy it here just to not disapear. Meditate on this I will (Yoda-style speaking ;) ). Apache doesn’t fork a new instance for every connection.Rather it “preforks” some instances, and all those…

After seen a small webservers in Perl and Ruby (webrick) here is my try with using Mongrel:Start an webserver on all interfaces (0.0.0.0), port 3002, serving static pages from ./html/ directory: require 'mongrel' config = Mongrel::Configur…

Seems RoR is dead in Kansai :( No conferences, no meetings. Tokyo - 12 Rails meetings and growing. Kansai - 5 meetings and no schedule for the next one. Sad.

via RailsTipsFor those interested in or needing Unicode, changeset #5223 should interest you. It is the initial checkin of ActiveSupport::Multibyte...Multibyte even has a screencast for those interested.

Merb == Mongrel + Erb. It is a super lightwieght ruby app server that maps urls to simple classes that can render erb templates...If you have a few pages of your dynamic site that have to be fast and you maybe don’t need the full power of …

We have just released the latest stable version of Ruby. This is a bug fix release. There should be no big difference from 1.8.4. We hope 1.8.5 is more stable and reliable than its preceding versions.―-Yukihiro MatsumotoAnd the change summ…

I put some notes for nginx on my wiki .The rails system administration is like waves – somebody found a new software and the community just fulfill it. Maybe there must be some name for this effect. Something like digg-effect but maybe Rai…

Created a first beta version of Restolog-1.2 . What’s new in it: Textile markup for articles body (act_as_textiled plugin) REST client (‘script/rester’) New REST API calls added (mostly for articles and comments) Some documentation (README…

Google's MapReduce is now available for Ruby (via gem install starfish). MapReduce is the technique used by Google to do monstrous distributed programming over 30 terabyte files.Here is the basic code that will get you up and running with …

I modified a little the original Alisdair McDiarmid’s RestBlog sources and created very simple blog system. Made an announce to the Rails ML. The copy of it follows:Restolog - very simple blog system based on REST/CRUD ideas. Sources (all …

O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price (see the "I want the PDF" checkbox in the upper right corner). Seems this is the first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF. PDF copies of t…

Without a lot of noise there is a new version of everybody's favourite blog engine - Typo. It including also an installer, which lets us following the no-step3-way: $ gem install typo $ typo install /tmp/typoLike always with RoR, there is …

You can have your personal Digg - like news site (social bookmarks): Crispynews - ...a network of community news sites where the visitors choose the news stories that interest them most.Or you can participate in my crispynews site ;) I'm t…

On the previous Kansai Rails Conference in Asiyagawa somebody asked me about using GMail (smtp+ssl or tls) with Rails ActiveMailer. Didn't find solution until now but 'dza-dza-dzaaaaaaan' (hahaha i'm not so smart, all credits going to ento…

A nice summaries of the RailsConf2006 sessions by Nick Sieger. Update (see also): Planet RailsConf Blogging RailsConf

Uhoo, finally. Now I can access my Rails applications not only with browser, but also mount them from the OS X Finger or like Windows Network Disks. Pretty cool. I'm waiting also for the changes in the Rails itself, to support PUT and DELE…

Great news from LiteSpeed Technologies – after a post to the forum they have ”X-Forwarded-Proto: https” AUTOMATICALY added to the headers, when proxing requests, initially comming via HTTPS. Now Rails applications are not confused, when do…

Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://rails.netlab.jp/debian sarge rails Install Rails $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install rails There is no step 3 ;) And if your question is "who the hack made this package?", it's NaCl -…

The best DHH presentation on RubyKaigi2006 "summary". Man, it's not a summary, it just the whole presentation, word by word, translated in japanese with sources, pictures etc.

Finally home. Notes about the second Japan Ruby Conference 2006 day are ready and online. Also some conference days photos.

I put some notes about Japan Ruby Conference 2006 on my wiki. DHH is here! Stay tuned...

Erubis is a pure Ruby implementation of eRuby. It has the following features. Very fast, almost three times faster than ERB and even as fast as eruby (implemented in C)... Embedded pattern changeable (default '') Multi-language support (Ru…

1. Install fossilize plugin $ ./script/plugin source http://opensvn.csie.org/mmediasys/trunk/rails/plugins/ $ ./script/plugin install fossilize2. Create the default script and configuration for your application # will create config/applica…

Google announced their new toy - Google Notebook. There are already several reviews for it on the net. People complaining about missing tagging etc. GNotebook come with Firefox extension. Pretty cool. And there is already (unofficial) Pyth…

Gmail for your domain just rocks! After 1 or 2 weeks of waiting you can have the latest on the web 2.0 email market for your own domain (personal or the company one). I already have my Gmail-based family webmail ;) Try send me an email on …

I started using Hatena Bookmarks Service . For some things it's even better than del.icio.us ! I like for example the Bookmarks Detail Look very much.

Test Driven Development (TDD) has you define the behaviour of your system by writing small tests that precisely define some small piece of your system's behaviour. Then you implement that behaviour. Then you clean up and improve your desig…

Found very good site: steve.org.ukSome interesting stuff: Argo ― Xen Monitor / Control Panel. Simple, extensible, framework for controling a host running multiple Xen instances. Exactly what I need for the company. lua-httpd ― simple, but …

via Aidan Finn's blog :widgEditor is a small simple lightweight editor. It provided basic rich functions such as bold, italics, links, lists, images and headings. Rails integration: Download widgEditor and uncompress Copy the widgEditor.js…