In my spare time I've been playing with Rails for a while now. This week I tried using SwitchTower and ActiveRecord Migrations for the first time, and I'm very impressed. Migrations provide a way for versioning and applying database changes. A simple call to script/generate migration MigrationName generates a new blank migration file with the appropriate version number....
The Pragmatic Programmers have published another Ruby book: "Learn to Program", by Chris Pine. The book is intended for new or non-programmers and teaches programming from the ground up - variables, flow control, and everything. It's nice to see Ruby move even more into the mainstream, and this book looks like a great introduction for new programmers.
Koders is a very cool source code search engine. It indexes many open source projects and covers a wide range of programming languages, including of course Java and Ruby, but also more obscure languages. Clicking on a search result brings up a very nice syntax highlighted version of the source code....
Ruby on Rails 1.0 was released today. David Heinemeier Hansson sums it up well in his blog. At this opportunity, a completely revamped Ruby on Rails website was launched as well. Congrats to David, the Rails Core Team, and all other contributors on this major achievement!...
RubyForge now supports Subversion as an alternative to CVS. If you are looking for a host for an open source project, RubyForge is a great choice (and almost the de-facto standard for Ruby projects), and Subversion support makes this even better. Nice!