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links for 2008-04-23

• code [dot] leadmediapartners.com - RubyAMP
  A set of tools for TextMate and Ruby.
  (tags: ruby plugins textmate)
• Git.tmbundle - Gitorious
  Git TextMate bundle. Git being what the cool kids seem to be using these days for version control… I’m still getting used to subversion, myself.
  (tags: git textmate plugins subversion webdev)
• YouTube - An Engineer’s Guide to Cats
  Worth watching just for the cat yodeling. Also, interpretive cardboard sculpture.
  (tags: funny humor howto video youtube cats)
• Fraser Speirs – Keywording in Aperture
  Fraser provides an admirably thorough introduction to using keywords and keyword buttons in Aperture to make a quick and efficient workflow for projects.
  (tags: howto aperture workflow articles)
• Clever Title Pending: rAtom 0.2.1 Gem released
  A gem to make Ruby on Rails work easily with the Atom publishing protocol. Now, if only MarsEdit worked nicely with Atom…
  (tags: atom xml rails plugins &nabokov)
• ratom-0.3.2 Documentation
  rAtom gem “supports, or aims to support, all the Atom Syndication Format and Publication Protocol and can be used to access Atom feeds or to script publishing entries to a blog supporting APP.”
  (tags: atom webdev xml ruby plugins rails &nabokov)
• Sparklines Graphs for Ruby | Ruby on Rails for Newbies
  As the title says: rails plugin to implement sparklines in Rails. Sparklines are inline graphs, intended to provide an impressional overview of the data being presented, without taking up the space of a huge graph figure.
  (tags: rails plugins tufte informationdesign)
• Use attr_protected or we will hack you — Less Everything Blog
  Use this method to prevent from an attack on your users database, or the Less Everything spider will get admin privileges on your rails site.
  (tags: security howto runner_project rails ruby)
• Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) - Part 1 of n « YAB
  Introduction: how rails uses the routes.rb file to create named routes and paths, and RESTful URLs. And stuff.
  (tags: rails howto REST xml @toread)
• A tutorial introduction to git (for version 1.5.1 or newer)
  “This tutorial explains how to import a new project into git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers.” Git seems a better system to use for tracking your own small project, especially for, say, writing.
  (tags: howto git webdev runner_project)
• Using Git to Manage and Deploy your Rails Apps | Join The Conversation
  This screencast details how to get git running, how to use it with Rails, and how to use Capistrano with git to deploy to a remote server.
  (tags: capistrano rails howto screencast git runner_project)
• Ruby on Rails Plugins - Agile Web Development
  This is a nice searchable database of plugins for Rails, with user comments and ratings.
  (tags: rails plugins webdev)