For everyone that hasn't heard about it yet, JRuby 1.6 was released about 22 hours ago: "9 months, 2500 commits, 1.9.2 support, C exts, and more!". In addition to that, Charles Oliver Nutter just released an interesting blog post entitled JRuby 1.6 Released … Now What?.
@phoet forked the official EuRuKo 2011 website, inviting everyone who failed to buy a ticket to add themselves to the inofficial waiting list. Simply fork the project, add yourself to the list and open a pull request :)
Just released Savon v0.8.0 which fixes quite a lot of bugs and comes with plenty new features. Please take a look at the CHANGELOG and read the all new Savon Guide to get started. Merry christmas :)
HTTPI provides a common interface for using different HTTP libraries. I need this for another project and unfortunately couldn't find anything like it. Please let me know if something similar already exists. If it doesn't, I'd appreciate your support!
I would love to hear your feedback on the idea of "combining RDoc and RSpec to create testable documentation". Posted a more detailed explanation at: http://gist.github.com/412283
In case you're already using Jay Fields Validatable gem, you may want to check out ValidatableAssociations. This Rails plugin and add-on to the Validatable library adds basic associations to your validatable Classes.