DevZone has a Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2 RefCard written by Peter Armstrong available for free download. Their registration/”download” process is a bit kludgy and intrusive but the RefCard is worth the effort.

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Peter Armstrong’s new book Enterprise Flexible Rails (which is all about Ruboss and is co-written with Ruboss badass Dima Berastau) was released to Manning’s Early Access Program today! Chapter one is available as a free PDF download.

If you only buy one book this year… well, maybe this isn’t quite ready to be it… but if this book ends up being even 1/2 as good as Peter’s Flexible Rails book then we’re in for a mammoth treat.

There’s a worth-reading announcement ’bout the book (since Peter and Dima are Canadian, I should have probably written “aboot” ;)) on the Ruboss-Framework Google Group.

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I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with the Ruboss framework, and finding that I like it quite a bit. Although the documentation is pretty darn sparse at the moment, I’ve been able to figure a fair bit out on my own, and am really impressed with how responsive the developers are. I posted a few questions and got detailed, useful responses with code bits and instructions as to where to stick ‘em (y’know, in the good way). Seriously awesome.

I fully intend to post snippets of stuff as I go along, I’m sure mostly for my own self-reference… but hey, if one person finds something useful, then awesome.

One of the more obviously cool bits about Ruboss is the yamlscaffold generator:

Create a Rails app, install the Ruboss plugin (dirt simple), create a model.yml file with your models and their relationships, run the yamlscaffold generator, compile using Flex Builder or the Flex SDK, and voila - a neat tabbed CRUD Flash interface which implements a pretty slick client-side MVC framework.

Give it a try, it doesn’t take much to get something happening…

While I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with Ruboss and have been exploring some other coolio stuff, I haven’t spent much time on a2sg proper. RailsConf is next week, so I’m either go apeshit on it this week, or more likely… not.

Seriously good news on the “deploying alpha versions to Dreamhost front:” no need to even go down the Capistrano route ’cause Dreamhost has installed Phusion Passenger, which makes deploying a Rails app to a shared hosting environment literally as simple as uploading the project directory to one’s account via FTP. I was shocked that it worked the first time, and seems to run well. Verrrrrrry cool!

I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop, sorta watching open mic. Sadly, the jackass who keeps noodling on his guitar while other people are on stage playing is my friend. Ugh.

There’s a hackfest tomorrow… I’m totally looking forward to that. See ya there if you’re goin’!

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