Rails Envy Podcast: The Ruby Show 95: e keep it quick while still packing in the news.

Episode #095. Dan Benjamin (Playgrounder, Hivelogic) is back this week and we keep it quick while still packing in the news.

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Show Notes

• Top story: Request log analyzer 1.4.0.1 Released

  Request-log-analyzer 1.4.0.1, now with updated README and LICENSE.

• Unicorn

  Unicorn is a HTTP server for Rack applications designed to take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels and only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully-buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.

  http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
  http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix

• Rainbows

  Rainbows! is a HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients.

• Mustache

  Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views.

• Install any html theme template in to your rails app

  Dr. Nic walks through using his recently released install_theme to install html templates in to your rails app. It also supports haml.

• Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist

  Matthew Moore put up a code quality check list for Rails apps and goes on to explain, in detail, every item.

• Gemcutter

  Gemcutter is the next generation of gem hosting for the Ruby community. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems. Become a contributor and enhance the site with your own changes.

• Ruby Inside redesigned

  Ruby Inside has a swanky new look. Check it out.

• RMagick looking for a new maintainer

  The RMagick project is looking for someone to take over maintenance. The project requires a moderately good C programmer who understands the Ruby C extension API and who is familiar with or is interested in becoming familiar with the ImageMagick MagickCore API. If you're interested email [email protected].

• block_helpers

  The block_helpers gem generates helpers similar to the form-builders, but for the general case.

• autotest-fsevent 0.1.2

  Now Snow Leopard compatible! You can safely resume autotesting.

• Instruct a Robot with IRB

  Use an IRB console to control a robot!

• validates_captcha

  A captcha verification approach for Rails apps, directly integrated into ActiveRecord's validation mechanism and providing helpers for ActionController and ActionView.