Example of using systemd socket activation in your ruby server.

Sending emails right from request-response cycle considered harmfull: Resque Mailer says: Put your emails to background

If you're using Vim or JEdit and you envy Textmate users for their good looking, dark color schemes check out Coloration color scheme converter.

This is a writeup on gem dependency problems and how we can possibly fix that. Feel free to leave your opinions in post comments - maybe we'll all come up with something cool.

racksh aka Rack::Shell is a console for Rack based ruby web applications. It's like Rails' script/console or Merb's merb -i, but for any app built on Rack. You can use it to load application environment for Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Camping, Ramaze or your own framework provided there is config.ru file in app's root directory.

If you use or plan to use LessCSS in your ruby project then check out css2less and rack-lesscss Rack middleware.

If you use JEdit for your Ruby needs you should get improved ruby mode and get some cool color scheme.

If you’re working on some cool ruby console-based application or just want to add a little style to your script here is a nice gem for you. It’s called Rainbow and it extends ruby String class adding methods to wrap the string with ANSI escape codes.

Use Rack::RevisionInfo rack middleware if you want to put revision information into the page on your demo/staging server.