I just posted a change I made to our local DJ copy to force the worker to fork to handle each job, keeping memory leaks under control.

If you ever wanted your Capistrano output saved in case you need it, here's a few lines of code that will fit nicely in your deploy.rb.

I had to move our application to use GUIDs, here's the way I migrated our tables and some of the issues I ran into in the process.

If you write down your release notes, here's a tiny cap task to print them at the end of your deploys.

Here's a quick writeup for how to make your Integrity instance play nice with Pivotal Pulse.

I put together an RSpec macro for quickly making sure your model works with machinist.

I just launched Peeping Tom, a ruby gem that helps monitor your webapps.

I just sleepily wrote mongrations, a Rails plugin that gives you migrations for MongoMapper.

I just launched Bling, a very lightweight alternative to Bundler. It's not as feature rich, but hasn't had nearly the hangups that Bundler has right now.

Here's a module I wrote that makes scheduling jobs with DJ easier.

I put together an app called Love/HATE (open source) that lets developers love or hate something and send that up to a page. We have it on a TV here; it's hilarious (and informative).

Post describing how to use jQuery and OpenSSL HMAC to keep passwords secure, without needing SSL.

I just put up a Rails OpenID engine that does almost all of the OpenID authentication work for you, minus a few simple steps, which you can read about here.

5 Quick Tips to make your Rails App Faster describes 5 (surprise!) things that can be almost indiscriminately applied to your application to speed things up.

Locked Envelope is a service written in Ruby and Rails and allows users to send encrypted messages and attachments without any downloads. Backed by S3, running on Passenger.

An overview of some of the tools used to profile and benchmark Rails applications, and some commentary on their use. Part 1.