links for 2008-04-23

A set of tools for TextMate and Ruby.

Git TextMate bundle. Git being what the cool kids seem to be using these days for version control‚Ķ I’m still getting used to subversion, myself.

Worth watching just for the cat yodeling. Also, interpretive cardboard sculpture.

Fraser provides an admirably thorough introduction to using keywords and keyword buttons in Aperture to make a quick and efficient workflow for projects.

A gem to make Ruby on Rails work easily with the Atom publishing protocol. Now, if only MarsEdit worked nicely with Atom…

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.”

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.

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.

Introduction: how rails uses the routes.rb file to create named routes and paths, and RESTful URLs. And stuff.

“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.

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.

This is a nice searchable database of plugins for Rails, with user comments and ratings.