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RubyDrop: A Dropbox Clone in Ruby

Ever used Dropbox? It's awesome. A cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, and even mobile) file syncing and backup service with 2GB for free (or 2.25GB if you sign up with this link).

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..

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.

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.

Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby

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

5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free!

rbp.pngRuby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O'Reilly) that looks into the "Ruby way" of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically, why Rubyists tend to write Ruby the way they do.

Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby

harmony.pngHarmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps. Why's that cool? Well, it enables you to build your own Ruby-level unit tests for JavaScript code within your Web applications - everything can be under one set of test suites!

Deploy A Free, Ruby Powered Blog In 5 Minutes with Toto and Heroku

heroku-dog.gif Toto (GitHub repo) is a new lightweight Ruby and Rack-based blogging engine designed specifically for "hackers" by Alexis Sellier. Content is managed entirely through Git - so everything is version controlled - and articles are stored as text files with embedded YAML metadata.

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