“Rails news delivered fresh”

“Swinger is a simple presentation tool built with Sammy.js, CouchDB, and Couchapp. You can Login or Sign up to create a slideshow or watch one of the existing presentations. The “Welcome” presentation is a good place to start.”

It’s also Open Source: http://github.com/quirkey/swinger

“Chris Wanstrath discusses the state of GitHub’s architecture, how GitHub is used and its impact on open source collaboration. “

“autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable. Autojump will listen and rank your ‘cd’ commands by frequency. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can “jump” to a commonly “cd”ed directory. […]”

by @newbamboo: “Realtime client push We believe that the real-time web is fantastic and should be simple to implement. This is our simple solution, powered by HTML5 websockets” 

okiess:

On Cloud lets you show off your rails app to the world without dealing with the hassles or charges associated with hosting.

If I ran the world, I would …

“This is an experiment.

We’d love you to help us make it work.

We want to tap the single largest pool of untapped natural resource in the world: human good intentions that never translate into action. We need adventurers like you to generate actionplatforms and microactions, and then invite people to microact.”

So… are you game?

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“Spoke helps package and distribute GitHub code. Encourages packaging best practices and conventions to eliminate long specifications forms and configuration sit ups.”

Very good introduction to Scopes (Formerly named_scope)

“zool is a gem to manage authorized_keys files on a set of n servers”