MAY 2008 Amazon EC2 Wrapper by Keith Hudgins Beautiful Views in Rails by Adam Dill Freebase by Sam Schenkman-Moore (http://github.com/samsm/freebaserubything/tree/master) APRIL 2008 Halcyon - Matt Todd DataMapper & ActiveRecord improvements in Rails 2.1 - Jordi Bunster Thin by Luigi Montanez Video upload, Transcoding to Flash, and Storage on S3 by Tim Kadom MARCH 2008 Cloud Computing (Amazon EC2, IBM's Blue xxx, RightScale, MorphLab's MAP) by John Willis Git source control by Jesse Newland FEBRUARY 2008 Ruby 1.9 by Stephen Touset ActiveMessaging CouchDB Web Monitoring with Scout http://scoutapp.com/... by Charles Brian Quinn MorpheXchange JANUARY 2008 Netbeans by Sun's Gregg Sporar Haml/SASS/StaticMatic by Andrew Bennett OLPC by Ernie Ellingson DECEMBER 2007 RubyCocoa by Jordi Bunster mystock.com by Andrew Bennett and Jon Phillips Nursing Home Application by Bill Siggelkow Matrioshka project by Sam Schenkman-Moore NOVEMBER 2007 Rails Survival Guide by Luigi Montanez Ruby Conf round-up by Stephen Touset and Sari Connard OCTOBER 2007 Metaprogramming by Stephen Touset Nginx by Mark Percival SEPTEMBER 2007 Lightning Talks AUGUST 2007 Metaprogramming RSpec by Stephen Touset JULY 2007 Open Id by Toby Ho Active Record JUNE 2007 RailsConf round-up Pallet MAY 2007 First impressions of Joyent Slingshot (online/offline Rails applications) by Eric Wagoner Asterisk (telephony, VOIP) with Ruby by Ernie Ellingson JUNE 2007 Rails Caching MARCH 2007 Ruby GUIs - Fox(Ernie Ellingson) and TK/TCL(Sari Connard) Javscript/Prototype hacking with Rails - wamily.com FEBRUARY 2007 My Favorite Plugin JANUARY 2007 Globalize - adding localization and translations to Rails applications acts_as_taggable - Charlie Hubbard DECEMBER 2006 AJAX with RJS by Josh Ferguson ActiveRecord by Marshall Vandegrift NOVEMBER 2006 Rspec by Charlie Hubbard Test Driven Development (TDD) by David Corbin OCTOBER 2006 Capistrano Deployment by Charles Brian Quinn Ferret (Ruby implementation of Lucene) Search by Charlie Hubbard