Yes! Exactly what I’m looking for:
A nice framework for ruby command-line apps!

Building Console Apps with SimpleConsole « t0fuu’s blog

Blame Scalability…
The Ex Factor - O’Reilly ONLamp Blog

How did he get all those thoughts in my head organized coherently?
What he said.

Very interesting concept. I’m wondering what the reaction will be from other Rails developers and the core team. I’m excited to try it out on my next project…
Unspace - HAML: HTML Abstraction Markup Language

Kevin Barnes has a great article about the philosophical differences in modern day languages. Good read.

Code Craft - Freedom languages - JournalHome.com

My company, Apollo Group Inc, does rock. Besides the killer heath insurance, my bosses have agreed to send me to RubyConf 2006 in Denver! WooHoo! I was scheduled to go to Denver later that week for a WebLogic training anyways. I pleaded to get the plane tickets moved a few days early so I’m able to hit RubyConf.

Yeah - pretty nerdy, but I’m ok with that.

RadRails - A Ruby on Rails IDE

New version 0.7 is out. Gotta love the RHTML editor and Mongrel sever support.

A new Rails LiveCD just came out. It’s got:

• Ruby 1.8.4
• Rails 1.1.2
• Capistrano 1.1.0
• Mongrel 0.3.13
• Rake 0.7.1
• Subversion
• MySQL 4.1.12
• MySQL Administrator
• RadRails
• KDevelop
• Kate

If only it were built using Ubuntu or Knoppix and not Mandriva

From Ruby on Rails’ weblog:

Have you ever wanted to write Rails routes using a URL’s subdomain? What about routing based on whether a request was HTTP vs HTTPS? Well, now you can. Recently Dan Webb released his Request Routing Plugin for public use. This plugin lets you create routing rules that use a whole slew of new properties: domain, subdomain, method, port, remote_ip, content_type, accepts, request_uri, and protocol.

You can obtain the plugin from Dan’s subversion repository:

ruby script/plugin install \
http://svn.vivabit.net/external/rubylibs/request_routing/


Nice - this is the kind of thing that almost brings me to tears when it comes to sweet dynamic languages.

Take the red pill: http://www.nobugs.org/developer/ruby/method_finder.html

I’ve learned several life lessons recently. I’ll share:

1. The tech scene down here in the valley rocks. I attended the Phoenix Linux Users Group last week and heard a sweet presentation by Vince from Google about Linux on the Enterprise Desktop. Nice work - especially about the specifics with Linux (Unix) user scalability issues. Two other cool things happened. I sat by someone taking notes with an Apple Newton (go figure) and more importantly I won the big prize in the raffle swag give-away - a Google Lava-lamp! That sweet baby is going on my desk right next to my well-worn Ruby pickaxe book. BAM!

2. We got to see the Mesa Arizona LDS Temple Easter Paegent. It was a great show and the weather was awesome (as usual). Bailey even managed to stay awake through the whole thing, though she fell asleep soon after hitting the carseat.

3. Rails generally blows on Oracle. Besides the v1.1 issue I found in Active Record, it seems that the whole concept of Rapid Application Development is lost on most Oracle DBA. (Why do you want 3 sepearate users? Why would you automatically blow away your test environment? Blah, blah, blah.) Do what I did - Even if you don’t have root - install mysql and be done with it. (It really isn’t that hard - I even did it on Solaris 8 without gcc)