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GUI edition

• Shoes – a lightweight Ruby interface to Windows, Linux and OSX applications. Best for small utilities. (into one, two and three by Juxie)
• Cheri::Swing – a full blow JRuby builder style interface to Java’s Swing.
• Ruby-GNOME2 – bindings for the GNOME 2.0 development environment.
• WxRuby – allows writing native-looking desktop applications for Windows, OS X, Linux GTK and other platforms. Probably the most complete GUI package.
• FXRuby – provides an interface to the FOX GUI library.
• RubyCocoa – OSX bindings for Ruby.
• VisualuRuby – Windows bindings for Ruby.
• Linux GUI Programming with Ruby – a short video demonstrating Glade based Linux GUI with Ruby.

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Rails

• Ruby 101: Naming Conventions.
• Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months.
• Default Order Plugin – order_by :fields => ['last_name', 'first_name'], :mode => :desc

Ruby

• Mailtrap – dummy SMTP server for testing your emails.
• New netbeans update from Oct 12th.

Web Development

• The Perfect Fluid Width Layout

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Ruby

• Changes in Ruby 1.9, Oct. 07 update.
• SWX Ruby updates to Alpha 0.1.1, has new screencast.

Web Development

• A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins.
• Five resourced to learn about BDD.

Misc

• How to Take Control of Your Day When You’re Overwhelmed.

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Rails

• Multiple Database Connections in Ruby on Rails.
• Payment Processing in Rails.
• Mocking/Stubbing partials and helper methods in RSpec view specs.
• Getting started with Autotest – Continuous Testing.

Web Development

• The resurrection of downloadable Web fonts.

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Rails

• jMaki on Rails screen cast.
• Rails 1.2.4: Maintenance release.
• “How I Learned to Love Testing” presentation.
• deepTest – running test in multiple threads for performance sake (via).

Ruby

• Many Skinny Methods – readability vs. number of lines.
• Removing elements with Hpricot

Web Development

• Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries – this is a pretty radical move from Microsoft. Unfortunately it’ll be under MS-RL license.