Read about how to use it here! It's metal.

Found great little nugget while mining in Capybara: Use Capybara on any HTML fragment or page!

Warm up with a data modeling adventure through Postgres, Redis, and MongoDB. And Shaq.

Planning on some downtime for a required kernel upgrade. Stay tuned on twitter for more info.

The official repository for RubyGems has moved over to GitHub! Woot!

Read all about it here.

Get notifications of gems as they're pushed to any URL you want. Read more here and check out an example app that uses this new feature.

Wherein gem forking on Gemcutter is debunked and the future of this workflow is discussed. Read up!

We've been talking lately in #gemcutter about how we can deal better with "namespaced" gems. Check out this wiki page and let us know which solution (or come up with your own!) you'd prefer.

Check out the new Update for everything that's new over at Gemcutter.

...two new projects: manage your github collaborators with enforcer, grade your projects with metric_fu/integrity using report_card, and also: make your test suite run UNCOMFORTABLY FAST

Need a daily git fix? Learn a little bit about git and how to harness its awesomeness at http://gitready.com

The Professional Ruby Conference in Boston has wrapped up. Copious amounts of notes are available on all of the talks given for those who couldn't make it. Enjoy.

The second installment of GitHub Rebase is now up! Goes over some new, most watched, and busy projects on the site.

GitHub Rebase #1, a new weekly column going over what's new at GitHub, breaking down stats, and more.

I thought figuring out the age of my Rails application's users was going to be easy. Or maybe not.