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Rails for Zombies: An Online Rails Learning Environment

Rails for Zombies is an intriguing attempt to teach people how to use Ruby on Rails directly in the Web browser. It comes from Envy Labs (and specifically Gregg Pollack, once of RailsEnvy fame).

AppSumo: A Discount Bundle of Webapp Credits Suited to Ruby Developers

AppSumo is an intriguing "bad ass developer bundle" that brings together $1543 of credit for ten different Web app development related resources (most are Ruby focused or have Ruby APIs) for a mere $47 purchase.
The services include:

Practicing Ruby: A Newsletter by Gregory Brown

If you've been following the Ruby scene for a while you'll have heard of Gregory Brown. He's the author of O'Reilly's Ruby Best Practices, creator of the Prawn PDF library, and the head honcho of the Ruby Mendicant University.

Heroku Launches Facebook App Hosting Package

Heroku, a popular Ruby webapp hosting platform that's picked up $13m in funding, has today unveiled their new Facebook App package. The package is aimed squarely at people wanting to develop Facebook apps and brings together several of Heroku's main offerings in a single, discounted monthly package.

Chronic 0.3.0 Released: Improved Natural Language Date/Time Parsing

Tom Preston-Werner has pushed out version 0.3.0 of Chronic, the popular natural language date and time parsing library for Ruby. It's a significant release because the last was 0.2.3 back in July 2007! Grab it now with gem install chronic

Michael Hartl’s 15 Hours of Rails 3 Screencasts

Ruby 1.9.2 Released

Yuki (Yugui) Sonoda has just announced the release of the stable version of Ruby 1.9.2!
Ruby 1.9.2 has been released. This is the newest release of Ruby 1.9 series. Ruby 1.9.2 is mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except the following changes:

The Why, What, and How of Rubinius 1.0’s Release

Rubinius or GitHub repo, an alternative Ruby implementation that's built in Ruby itself - as much as possible, has this last weekend hit the coding equivalent of a Bar Mitzvah..

JRuby 1.5.0 Released: The Best Alternative Ruby Implementation Gets Even Better

Following on five months after the release of the popular JRuby 1.4, the JRuby team have delivered JRuby 1.5!

New Relic RPM Officially Supports Rack and Sinatra – Finally!

NewRelic_inline.pngNew 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.

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