links for 2008-11-07

"This module gives Arduino the ability to open connections to other Internet hosts or behave like a server, for example a simple web server." Previously, there were shields (from ladyada.net, for example) that would let you mount a third party serial/ethernet adapter, but it involved multiple vendors.

A rails project with a set of gems and plugins that the guys at thoughtbot commonly use, which you can pull from github, and immediately have as a git repository. Nice time saving tool if you use shoulda for testing, for example.