There's a lot of muscle under the hood of the Engine Yard AppCloud and xCloud offerings providing Rails/Ruby automation, management and support. I am ecstatic to announce that a critical layer of our automation -- fog, the Ruby library for cloud computing and provisioning, along with its creator Wesley Beary -- are being promoted to the Engine Yard Open Source Program!

Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments.

Have you ever wondered which instance types you use most when dealing with Amazon’s EC2? I have, so I came up with a short Clojure/Incanter program to plot a nice chart like this:

New Relic's RPM, an application performance monitoring and reporting system, has today announced it has added full support for Sinatra and Rack-based Ruby applications to its traditionally Rails-centric service.

If you’re reading this blog, you probably know that the Ruby Best Practices book exists. Even if you haven’t read it, you might have a sense for the sort of topics we cover based on the content you’ve seen on this blog. But now, everyone is going to get a chance to read RBP the way its meant to be read: as a conversation.