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Pusher: WebSocket-powered Realtime Browser Push Service for Rubyists

Pusher is a new Web service from New Bamboo that makes it easy to push data to users of your web applications "live", outside of the request response cycle. They've embraced Web Sockets technology and built a REST API to which you can post events.

RDropbox: A Ruby Client Library for Dropbox

Dropbox is a popular file hosting service (4m+ users) that provides synced backup and file hosting to OS X, Windows, and Linux users. You get up to 2GB of space for free.

3 New Date and Time Libraries for Rubyists

In the UK there's a cliché that goes: "You wait hours for a bus, and then three come along at once!" So it went with these three Ruby date and time libraries. They all made an appearance on RubyFlow last week and are all useful in their own ways, depending on how you're working with dates and times.

Paul Barry Winner RPCFN #8

In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Paul Barry of USA, winner of the eighth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies.

RPCFN: Interactive Fiction (#9)

Visually Inspect Ruby Object Models with DrX

When you want to inspect your objects in Ruby, Object#inspect, p, or awesome_print are all valuable. You're stuck with plain-text, though, and primarily designed to look at object data rather than object models.

Nestful: A Simple Ruby HTTP/REST Client Library

Nestful is a simple HTTP/REST client library for Ruby, developed by Alex MacCaw (of Juggernaut) fame. Nestful allows you to consume basic Web services easily, usually in a single line of code.

Cinch: A Ruby IRC Bot Building Framework

Cinch (or GitHub repo) is a new Ruby "microframework" for creating IRC bots.

A Free Course on Sinatra

A Free Course on Sinatra
To celebrate the release of Sinatra 1.0 RubyLearning announces the first-ever, free online “Introduction to Sinatra” course starting from 15th May 2010.
Sinatra – quickly create tiny web apps and services

What’s Sinatra?
Sinatra is a micro-framework for quickly creating tiny web-applications and small services in Ruby. It is not a Model-View-Controller (MVC) based framework.

Facebook Rails Integration with OAuth2

This is simply awesome.  Facebook launches a new API using OAuth2, making it much easier to integrate with Facebook from your Rails app, and Michael Bleigh quickly churns out a new oauth2 gem.

Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 23:00 PDT | Rails Fire

Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 23:00 PDT

We will be having a maintenance window tonight from 23:00 to 23:59 PDT. A very small amount of web unavailability will be required during this period.

We will be upgrading some core libraries to versions that are not compatible with what is currently running, so all daemons must be restarted simultaneously. For this to go smoothly, we will be disabling the web app for perhaps 30 seconds.

UPDATE: Maintenance was completed successfully. Total web unavailability was a tad more than estimated at one minute and 40 seconds. Some job runners did not restart cleanly and as a result some jobs failed, but all job runners are operating normally now. If you experienced any problems during the maintenance window, don’t hesitate to contact us at http://support.github.com.