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First thing is first: The RailsBridge famous Rails BugMash was up again this week, and sadly i was only able to participate for only a mare few hours, i was thrilled to realize that again, the BugMash is getting the best of me.
Comparing to the first one last month, i was a lot more familiar and ready this time to handle the Rails core code, Git ninja maneuvers and general Ruby and Rails/idioms and internal processes, and i must say it was even more fun and addictive this time.

I really hope that all of you rails developers join us the next time are throwing in a BugMash party, you’d be surprised to know how easy it is to find something you want to change/fix in the rails core and submit a patch. Except from the huge help you are going to get on #railsbridge on IRC, you’ll be able to get to know tools and procedures and are not so confident in using them, and possibly achieve a “Rails Contributor” status, win.

Now, awesome links ahead.

• RubyMine 2.0 Beta – another release for this IDE, people seem to like it thu.
• rake console – custom IRB instance for your ruby gem interface.
• TeachMeToCode screencasts – another dedicated Rails screencasting website.
• Javascript Libraries for easier web design – web design? easier? i’m in.
• convert_theme – convert any html theme to Rails, Dr. nic is on it.. i would pay attention to it when it’s done.
• jQuery Desktop – a jQuery desktop interface implementation, javascript is awesome.
• Javascript’s ‘this’ – an explanation about Javascript’s “this” object and scopes.
• jQuery wall for webkit – superior browsers are fun.
• SwitchBoard – event listeners for ActiveRecord – Observers on steroids ?
• jQuery accessible slider – pretty, neat and accessible.
• Sliding panel in jQuery – a sliding bar on top, could be more fun to have it a little bit more customizable.
• TweetStream – access Twitter stream in Ruby
• Real-time related tweets widget – display related twits instantly on your site.
• 3D Sphere in jQuery – again, javascript. i think this is the only reason i like modern age graphic browsers.
• Railings – another attempt for an Uber rails template.
• Painless DOM building in Javascript – mkup is a nice DSL for DOM construction, looks easy and simple.
• Testing Rails observers with shoulda – another neglected testing aspect revealed.
• Anaphora in Ruby – i have absolutely no idea what that is, it’s just here for you and me for later reading, looks interesting thu.
• Setup Gitorious – open source Rails application for managing your projects: Git repositories, wikis, timeline and more.
• Capistrano file actions – apparently, this old gizzer is still kicking.
• Rails Time zone aware attributes and Chronic – make those 2 play nice.
• Javascript Rails templates – nice and easy implementation and example, i like this blog.
• Bash scripting guide – cause who doesn’t like bash ?
• When GitHub goes down – ways to maintain sanity.

GitHub Treasures

• validatius_on_rails – a binding between Rails validations and client side validations.
• gravater_on_rails – A configurable and documented Rail view helper for adding gravatars into your Rails application
• fleximage – Rails plugin for uploading images as resources, with support for resizing, text stamping, and other special effects.
• proxy_machine – A simple TCP routing proxy built on EventMachine that lets you configure the routing logic in Ruby.
• rubycas-server – Provides a single sign-on solution for web applications, implementing the server-end of JA-SIG’s CAS protocol.
• prettyscript – a young project that intends of making javascript syntax suck less. good luck.