I’m finally getting some time off and I’ve been collecting a list of technology items to check out. After seeing Charles Nutter, Rick Olson, David Chelimsky, and Chris Wanstrath speak at Lone Star Ruby Conference and Jinesh Varia (a Rails-loving AWS evangelist) speak at Austin On Rails, my list has really ballooned. There is just some amazing stuff out there right now. It really is a beautiful time to be a developer. I hope to play around with some of these over the next couple of weeks.
I thought I’d put this list up here on the blog in case someone else finds it interesting/useful.
- bloom filters (rapleaf): bit array for searching large datasets
- a/r mysql slave (rapleaf): query read-only slaves in ActiveRecord
- erlang: concurrent programming language and runtime system
- amazon sqs,ec2,s3 (Marcel’s s3 lib), Steve’s elasticrails
- Ezra’s merb: lightweight MVC Ruby app server
- facebook app, api, rfacebook gem, Chad’s facebooker gem
- Rick’s attachment_fu, appcast and jack
- Chris’s cache_fu / memcached
- jruby / gold spike
- ambition: a bit like Erlang’s mnesia for ActiveRecord
- rspec, test-spec
What Ruby and Rails libraries, techniques, and plugins are on your radar? I’d love to know.
5 comments ↓
CouchDB definitely. Also, jruby brings up all sorts of interesting possibilities, like using various java libs as replacement for ruby libs. Who wants to write c when you can write java?
exhibit a: jrexml: http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=16590
With that said, I may be looking at svnkit as a possible replacement for those pesky ruby/svn bindings that are a bitch to install for some folks.
* ZenTest (mainly autotest)
* Camping (_why’s micro-framework)
* Rspec
* JRuby
Appcast and CouchDB are definitely on my radar — I plan to use them in my next app.
“Who wants to write c when you can write java?”
I do.
Java’s really nice when you can write it in ruby :).
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