Enki, Menki or Eoraptor?

A while back whilst browsing the RORO Google Group, I noticed Xavier Shay's little project "Enki" - an interesting little blog engine written on Ruby on Rails.

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Rack::URLMap and kicking ass.

Rack come's with a lot of excellent middleware out of the box, making a lot of seriously cool things possible. One of the most important of these middleware's is URLMap - a little gem that lets you map different url paths to different rack applications. Using Rack::Builder / rackup syntax you can use the map method with a block to define a different urled application.

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Busting a cap in yo' ass!

Ok, the titles lame but I hope the contents aren't. Today I'll be running through a quick Capistrano config - perfect for if your running on a VPS - that has a heap of free goodies included. Also, thanks to Skiz on #offrails for a nice start earlier after I lost some of my stuff.

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Ruby-watch in Oh-Eight

As is tradition at the end of the year, I made my own New Year's Resolutions - some were the usual (get fit, spend less time on the computer etc. etc.) but I set two goals specifically related to this one blog post - Firstly, as you've probably guessed, I promised myself that I'd blog on a more regular basis on my own plan and secondly I promised to both learn more programming stuff and to more actively participate in the community. In the vein of the last two, I know present with you a short list of some technologies I think you should keep an eye on in 2008.

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