just released a plugin for rails, a helper to help create graphics with the javascript library "highcharts" the samples of the graphics are in the highcharts site; and the code of the helper can be found, as always, in github: http://github.com/michelson/lazy_high_charts

I just launched Detached-Carrot a port of SimplifiedStarling plugin for push&pop active_record tasks with RabbitMQ. SimplifiedStarling is a very cool plugin that works on StarlingMQ, since Starling presented some problems with the latest versions of memcached-client i decided to work on porting SimplifiedStarling to work on RabbitMQ. This plugin works with carrot gem a great client for synchronous amqp. so what makes DetachedCarrot is simply detach the process and push AR tasks in the same way as SimplifiedStarling does. so probably the switch to ss to dc should be transparent.