ARes Test Drive. Rick Olson takes ActiveResource for a test drive, using it to read and post to the Beast discussion forum. Looks like ActiveResource will not be part of Rails 1.2, but still the current version is promising. Check the post to see how much you can do with little coding.
Debugging in Steel. Another reason for using Ruby in Steel: debugging Rails applications.
What will DSL do for me? Russ Olsen wanted to test against a fake Web server, to keep the test cases simple, he created a DSL: “Clearly, anything you can do in potemkin you can do in plain old Ruby plus webrick. Potemkin just makes its easier, and easier, quite frequently, is the name of the programming game.”
Rails 1.2 Rails 1.2 is officially out, with hundred of bug fixes, improvements, better ActiveRecord, UTF-8 support and ... the best framework for HTTP. Rails 1.2 breaths HTTP, RESTful all the way, and lets you build XML and JSON APIs in a few lines of code.
And while you're at it, check out the Rails Cookbook, which covers Rails 1.2.
s33r From Elliot Smith, s33r is a library for using Amazon's S3 service.
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