Time to clean out the links bucket in anticipation of a busy weekend.
- Hackety Hack – Ruby-based take on the idea of a starter’s coding environment for kids. (via Ruby Inside)
- ActsAsSecure – Automatically encrypt specific fields from an ActiveRecord model when they’re stored in a database.
- Compiling RMagick on OS X 10.4.9 Intel – RMagick, or at least its setup, is one of the pieces of the whole Rails story that just seems utterly devoid of elegance.
- Tips for Upgrading to Capistrano 2 – I’ll probably jump in this pond sooner rather than later. One of the nice things about being new to the Rails world is that everything is new anyhow so there’s no special penalty to being out on the edge.
- acts_as_sphinx plugin – Yet another option for full-text searching in Rails applications.
- Rails: Group results by week – This came in handy last night when I needed to do multilevel reporting in a Rails view.
