Spoken

Sharing models between two Rails applications using Piston: I recently had to share specifications and models between two applications. Here’s how I did it: [Without having a moment to think about it… there must be other ways to accomplish this (in Rails) without Piston, and other Subversion trickery. No?]
Source: A Single Programmer’s Blog

[PLUGIN RELEASE] ActsAsPartitionable: ActsAsPartitionable provides support for using multiple databases to support data partitioning schemes for existing models. This plugin allows models marked as acts_as_partitionable to specify database partitions to and explicit names to reference those partitions using existing models. As part of this plugin connection pooling is provided so that many different models may share the same database for partitions without forcing each partition model object to inherit from a common base class. [Giving back. Cool.]
Source: Revolution On Rails

Everything Good is Bad For You: Technology was supposed to let us solve these problems. But technology never solves things by itself. At bottom, it requires people to sit down and build tools that solve them. Which, as long as programmers are all competing to create the world’s most popular timewaster, it doesn’t seem like anyone is going to do. [Right on. Now what?]
Source: Aaron Swartz: The Weblog

Joyent To Offer Open Source Version of Slingshot: When Slingshot ships, Joyent will use a dual license model similar to Trolltech, MySQL, and Sleepycat. Open Source and/or Free Slingshot will be open-sourced under the GPL and available to anyone with a publicly available service that is free (advertising is “ok”) running on the Rails platform. An example of this type of application is Twitter. You will be able to download the source-code of Slingshot, dig your fingers in, and work with it in any way you see fit. We are planning a number of initiatives in order to build a vibrant community around Slingshot and are currently working to get a number of open source Rails applications working on Slingshot. We have Radiant working, and we will release this as part of the SDK when we ship Slingshot to the world. [Cool.]
Source: Joyeur

RubyScript? (Or, running Ruby scripts in the browser): Dion Almaer has a go at implementing a basic Ruby scripting system for Web pages (or, as I call it, “RubyScript”). [Cute. Maybe it’ll be useful one day.]
Source: Ruby Inside

But was it worth it? Probably not. The feature was deemed valuable at a cost of two hours, not sixteen. Sixteen hours of work could have gotten four other things done that individually were at least as important.[Very clearly stated (and I agree, although I still get caught up in this… a work in progress)]
Source: SIGNAL VS. NOISE