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Episode 102: Introducing Fancy Buttons! Also check out @railstips on Twitter.

Published on December 7th, 2009
 
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Episode #102 Introducing Fancy Buttons! Also check out @railstips on Twitter.

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Show Notes

  • MagLev Alpha Released

    Peter Cooper writes about the recently released MagLev alpha over on the Ruby Inside blog.

  • Passenger 2.2.7 Released

    Phusion has released passenger version 2.2.7 which includes many bug fixes.

  • HTML Sanitization in Rails

    David posts on the Viget Labs blog about doing HTML sanitization in the Markdown library.

  • SASS now supports Rack

    Sass now has native support for all Rack-based frameworks.

  • FancyButtons!

    Brandon Mathis has released Fancy Buttons, a SASS plugin to give you great looking semantic buttons.

  • Amp Version Control

    Amp is a version control system written in Ruby. It currently supports Mercurial.

  • Temporals

    A uniquely powerful Ruby parser for Temporal Expressions. Type out your recurring time patterns in plain english, and the computer can understand it.

  • Setup Ruby Enterprise Edition, nginx and Passenger on Ubuntu

    Antonio Cangiano has written a tutorial on getting a production Rails stack up and running on Ubuntu.

  • Caliper

    Caliper is hosted Ruby Metrics from the Devver crew.

  • Reflection

    Reflection is designed to keep your development system in sync with your production system's files and database (by dumping). It uses a shared git repository to store these files, which allows you to mirror your production environment without the need of direct access to your production servers.

  • Easy_esi

    Michael Grosser has released easy esi, which lets you render partials using ESI. This allows you to have cached pages with dynamic partials.

  • Rails Best Practices Gem

    rails_best_practices is a gem to check quality of rails app files according to ihower's presentation Rails Best Practices from Kungfu RailsConf in Shanghai China.

  • Pancake Stacks

    Matt Allen sent along word that Dan Neighman has created fully mountable nested rack applications called pancake stacks.