It’s been a while since my last link-blog entry, so this will be quite a big list!

Ruby

• Mustache – for logic-free views in your Ruby web apps
• Watchr – a replacement for autotest
• New Thoughtbot-designed Gemcutter site launched
• Getting ImageMagick and Passenger to play nicely together on OS X
• MacRuby approaching a Milestone – Blog post by Matt Aimonetti.
• Loofah – HTML sanitizer based on Nokogiri.
• Old, but still neat and useful: Subdomain routing in rails
• Tilt – a generic interface to various Ruby templating engines.
• Riot – A fast unit test framework for Ruby
• Ruby code-beautifier TextMate Bundle

General Web/Software

• Google ChromeFrame for sabotaging IE (this feels like old news now!)
• We are colorblind. About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness (like me). The patterns and examples on this site help you create websites that we color blind can use without problems
• Pimpin’ (Software Projects) Ain’t Easy – Great marketing-software-for-non-marketers presentation by Amy Hoy
• There’s only Metadata and URLS – Interesting blog post by Tom Scott.

Git

• Github moves to rackspace and ditches gem building
• Tips from @Cauis on .gitignore

CouchDB

• Why CouchDB is the filesystem for the Web
• CouchDB goes beta!
• Mozilla Raindrop – a messaging system built on CouchDB
• Some CouchDB performance tips from Till Klampaeckel