Just two months ago, Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer of the Rails Envy podcast launched Envy Casts, a micro-publisher in the Rails scene. In anticipation of the release of Rails 2.2, they've released both a Ruby on Rails 2.2 Screencast and a…

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Mike Gunderloy has written an excellent thirteen step guide to contributing to Rails - step by step. He covers:

• Getting Git
• Checking out the Rails source code
• Setting up and running the tests that come with Rails (so you can check that your…

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Ilya Grigorik writes about the successes - so far - in using MySQLPlus with Rails 2.2's database connection pool to improve ActiveRecord's scalability.

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Ben Johnson says that Authgasm is "Rails authentication done right." Check it out and see for yourself.

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Today, David Heinemeier Hansson has announced the release of the first "Release Candidate" of Rails 2.2. Mike Gunderloy has put together a remarkable page listing all of the key changes individually. They include:

• Internationalization
• Significant Ruby 1.9 and JRuby compatability improvements
• HTTP ETag…

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Vasco (Github repository) is a "route explorer" for Rails developed by Relevance, Inc and released under an MIT license. Effectively it provides a Web-based UI to explore the RESTful routes configured for your Rails app. It installs as a plugin.

With Vasco,…

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TechCrunch writes "131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best." It's a good introduction to Rails Rumble.

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InternetNews.com asks Do Ruby on Rails Developers Need Merb?

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David Heinemeier Hansson has announced Rails 2.0.5, a point release of the now dated 2.0.x family. It's just a security release with two fixes.

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Hot off the back of the Rails Guides hackfest came a lot of great new Rails documentation. Now joining that documentation comes an all new Ruby on Rails Security Guide. Clocking in at almost 11,000 words, the guide covers RJS injection,…

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