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PWS, a ruby-powered command line password manager
Jan Lelis recently released PWS, a command line driven password manager. It's written in just over 200 lines of code and utilizes an AES256 encrypted file-store to keep your passwords safe.

Mechanize version 2.1.1 has been released
Last week, Mechanize version 2.1.1 was released. This release adds several minor enhancements and bug fixes, some of which include better handling of idle request timeouts, SSL certificate verification, the ability to stream files directly to your disk for large downloads, and it even adds support for the HTML5 keygen form element.

Highscore finds your keywords for you
Dominik Lieber built and released a Ruby library called Highscore that extracts keywords from a string. Not only that, but it takes those keywords and ranks them by length, capitalization, frequency count, and more. The weights are customizable and it even supports a blacklist to avoid noise words.

A Responsive Sinatra Bootstrap using Bootstrap
Sinatra haml bootstap fluid is a new Sinatra Bootstrap which bundles Twitter's Bootstrap with HAML so that you can avoid the setup process for a small application.

Sidekiq has been released
Mike Perham has just released Sidekiq, a concurrent message processing library which uses a message format that is compatible with Resque. In some cases, this will allow your Resque-backed job runners to be much more resource efficient, and may even require you to run less hardware behind the scenes.

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Snitch
Find out who's in the office with snitch.

rspec_api_documentation
Generate pretty API docs for your Rails APIs.

Ruby 1.9.1 Released!
Ruby 1.9.1 was released three years ago! So why are you still not using 1.9.x for your app?

Vim for Rails Developers
Still scared of using vim? Luca Pette shows you some cool things you can do with it in this series of blog posts.

Twitter Bootstrap 2.0
Twitter's Bootstrap got a complete rewrite for the 2.0 release!

www.gov.uk
The government in the UK just released a series of new websites based on Rails and Sinatra as open source.

Nick Quaranto Discusses RubyGems.org
In a recent interview, Nick Quaranto discusses how RubyGems.org works.

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Devise 2.0 has been released
Over the weekend, Devise 2.0 was released. This new version only supports Rails 3.1+, but adds support for email reconfirmation, better support for Rails Engines, and more. There's a wiki page available to help with the upgrade, as well.

Running Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku’s Cedar stack
Late last week, Daniel Kehoe created a tutorial on getting Rails 3.2 running on Heroku, with additional detail about how to get it running on Ruby 1.9.3. This seems like extremely useful information, so we thought we'd share it.

Acceptance and Integration Testing with Kookaburra
Last week Sam Livingston-Gray sent in an email letting us know about a testing library called Kookaburra, which is a framework for implementing the window driver pattern to keep your acceptance tests maintainable. If your acceptance tests are becoming brittle or unmaintainable, maybe this is worth a look.

30% faster boot time in Ruby 1.9.3-p0 in one line
Burke Libbey has put together several performance-oriented patches, from Sokolov Yura and Samuel Cochran, for Ruby 1.9.3-p0 into a single Gist which can be installed with just one line of code. After the gist patches have been applied, people are reporting significantly faster Rails boot times. The gist contains install instructions for rvm and rbenv.

Rails 3.2.1 has been released
Late last week, Rails 3.2.1 was released to address a few regression issues introduced in 3.2.0 and add more documentation to new or changed features. Otherwise, this release shouldn't introduce anything new, and therefore, is bug free. ;)

Separate Your Resque Workers with simple_resque
Mike Subelsky recently released simple_resque, which is a gem that allows you to split your application’s Resque workers apart from your web application code. This could allow you to separate your asynchronous workers onto different machines and better grow your application.

CSS Cross-Country
Just this morning, Code School released CSS Cross-Country, which is a foundation course in CSS, covering floats, specificity, display types, positioning, sprites, pseudo classes, and more.

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How can you make the awesomeness of NewRelic even more... uh... awesomer? By adding metrics collection to your own code to capture the kinds of things only you would know you care about!

In this blog entry, Sean Walberg shows you how to do it. Thanks for the submission, Sean!

RubyStack
The BitNami Rails stack has been updated for rails 3.2. It can be deployed using a native installer, as a virtual machine or in the cloud, and includes pretty much everything you'd want in a Rails environment except for a butler to go run your errands while you're in the zone.

More on DCI
DCI has become a hot topic in Rails, largely because some of the language features in Ruby make it a compelling choice for code organization. In this article, Mike Pack describes how DCI isn't just a code organization choice, but goes all the way into influencing the 'mental model' your users have of the application. He also talks about performance considerations, which has been absent from most of the DCI discussions to date.

Draper 1.1
Sometime between travellng the world to speak at conferences and teaching newcomers to be Ruby Ninjas, Jeff Casimir has found the time to release Draper 1.1. This release includes performance tweaks and compatibility with CanCan, among other stuff.

business_time

business_time is an ActiveSupport add-on that gives you business -time helper methods such as "4.business_days.from_now".

This release adds configurable week start and end (if you're a baker, or live in the middle East, for instance), as well as several other small pullup requests. Further, Chris Wise shared with us an article he wrote showing how to integrate business_time with the holidays gem, so business_time automatically skips over holidays when doing calculations.

EngineYard Theme
Ok, so you might not need to build the next EngineYard website, but if you've ever had a common set of design assets (css/javascript/images/partials/etc) and wanted to bundle them up so you're not just blindly copying files across projects, rip this project apart and learn how it works.

Risp?

Mike Fogus implemented Lisp in 40 lines of Ruby code, then went back and tweaked it to be 32 lines. And desipte Arild's comment in the audio, its not like an 'obfuscated C' contest either.

Take 5 minutes, peruse the code, and stretch your mind a bit. You might just learn a thing or two about Ruby while you're at it!

wat
If you missed it in your twitter stream this week, go watch it right now. ~4 minutes of standup-at-the-command-line only a developer could love.

Arlington UnConf
This was supposed to be a closing shoutout to friend-of-the-show Jim Gay who is hosting an Unconference in Arlington, VA next month. The next story was added so this got bumped into the main story lineup.

Rails Hidden Features
Well, maybe not quite 'hidden', but definitely the not-quite-talked-about features that will have an impact on your day to day development.

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Rails 3.2 was released
Last Friday Rails 3.2 was released. It comes with a faster dev mode and routing engine, an easy way to explain slow queries from ActiveRelation, a Tagged Logger and a new ActiveRecord store for key/value pairs.

Rails Tutorial updated for Rails 3.2
Michael Hartl's guide to building an entire Rails application from scratch has already been updated for the barely released Rails 3.2. The updates cover Sass and the Asset Pipeline, the new RSpec syntax, Capybara, Cucumber and how to create an authentication system with the has_secure_password method. For now only the first 5 chapters are available for free.

tconsole – A Testing console for MiniTest
Alan Johnson has released a testing console for Rails to help you manage your tests and run them faster even if you're not too keen on running them automatically. It's only compatible with MiniTest.

sitemap_generator 3.0.0
sitemap_generator makes it easy to build out sitemaps with millions of links, it automatically compresses your sitemaps, and notifies search engines when they're updated. It also supports news, video, image, and geo sitemaps. This new version (3.0.0) is no longer dependent on Rails.

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Hobson Runs Tests
Jared Grippe has released Hobson, a distributed test runner framework for RSpec and Cucumber built on Resque.

Rails or Sinatra: The best of both worlds?
Darren Jones asked some prominent Ruby developers for their thoughts about Rails and Sinatra. There are some interesting takes on why Rails and Sinatra are awesome to work with.

Hashes and Encapsulation
Jon Leighton shows you how badly your life will suck if you don't properly encapsulate access to internal hashes. It starts with nil-checks propagating everywhere and ends with locusts and boils.

Why Sinatra's Halt is Awesome
Myron Marston wants you to halt, turn around and take this stylish error code back to whoever sent you. There's nothing more for you here in this Sinatra route, so go on, be on your way.

Factory Girl 2.4 Goes Meta
Factory Girl 2.4 has some refactorings that make it a ton and a half faster. Josh Clayton explains in his blog post.

An Exhaustive Explanation of Minimax, a Staple Game AI Algorithm
Daniel Higginbotham explains the minimax artificial intelligence algoritm, and provides a Ruby version of the tic-tac-toe game as an example.

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Code School
If you haven't tried Code School yet, level 1 of A Sip of CoffeeScript, our newest course is completely free to try out. You can get access to all of our Courses and CodeTV screencasts for just $25/month over on CodeSchool.com.

Juvia – An open source commenting application
Recently Hongli Lai released Juvia, an open source commenting application similar to Disqus or Intense Debate. It supports mulitple sites, administrators, comment moderation, Akismet spam filtering, and it uses a Javascript snippet to embed the comments.

How to create a local copy of Rails API doc and Guides
Aslam Najeebdeen wrote a blog post about how to create local copies of the Rails API docs and Rails Guides. You'll be able to access them when developing offline.

Neo4J on Heroku
The Neo4j graph database is all about relationships and association traversal. Max De Marzi just released part 2 of his series showing how to run it on Heroku.

Your tests are lying to you
Chris Parsons warns us against using too many mocks and stubs which can create false positives and make you a sad panda.

Smelly Cucumbers
Dave Kennedy explains how bad cucumber scenarios can arise from trying to be too specific and shows a simpler, more maintainable way to write them.

Ruby Hero Awards
It’s once again time for the Ruby Hero Awards, where we take a moment to recognize people in our community that make great contributions and may not receive the recognition they so deserve. If you know someone who deserves an extra pat on the back, please take a moment to nominate them. Thanks!

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DataMapper 2.0 Roadmap
Find out what's going into the next major release of DataMapper.

Faster TDD feedback with tmux, tslime.vim, and turbux.vim
Look like a l33t hacker and be super productive with tmux, tslime, and turbux.

Haml Server
A simple sinatra app that serves up some haml.

Installing RefineryCMS with Rails 3.1.3
This blog post from Tony Semana explains how to get RefineryCMS up and running with Rails 3.1.3 and Heroku.

Ronin Release Candidates
Happy New Year--new release candidates of Ronin!

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RSpec 2.8 Released!
Last Wednesday RSpec 2.8 was released with rspec-rails 2.8.1 a day later. This new version has improved documentation, better support for tags and filtering, a new order option which allows you to run your specs in random order to find order-dependency bugs, a new rspec -init option which will create a spec directory and some starter code for a blank project, and a dramatic speed boost.

What happened in RSpec 2.8
Nate did some investigation to figure out why RSpec 2.8 was faster. What he found is that they've reimplemented every built-in matcher which ships with RSpec to use classes, instead of the Matcher DSL.

Minitest Quick Reference
If you haven't taking a closer look at the Minitest library that ships with Ruby 1.9 Matt Sears wrote up a really nice quick reference guide.

Easily integrate Rails and KnockoutJS with knockout-rails
Dmitriy Nagirnyak recently released a new gem called knockout-rails, which gives you a pretty painless way to integrate your Rails application with KnockoutJS and allows you to bring some model validation, events, and callbacks forward to the client’s browser.

Puma
With Rubinius 2.0 in the works, we will soon have a version of Ruby (other then JRuby) which can make the best use of all your CPUs using threads. However, there wasn't a Ruby web server built to handle concurrency with threads efficiently so Konstantin Haase and Even Phoenix have been working on a new web server called Puma.

SpreeConf
Spree, the open course e-commerce platform in Rails, is running a conference February 15-16 in New York, New York, and if you use the discount code RUBY5, you can grab a ticket for just $109 bucks. If that's too far away, be sure to check out RubyThere.com to find a Ruby conference in your neck of the woods.