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Ruby Search Bookmarklet For Ru8y.com

preston.lee — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:12:56 +0000

Marc Chung put up a quick Ruby documentation search site recently: http://ru8y.org. Here a quick little bookmarklet for your Ruby searching needs. (Drag it to your toolbar.)

Ru8y Search

Marc Chung on Amazon Web Services

preston.lee — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:13:37 +0000

Mad props to fellow OpenRain’r Marc Chung for an excellent AWS presentation at this months Phoenix Rails meeting. Follow-up links..

Full session audio in Rubyology episode #59, courtesy Chris Matthieu.
Slides.
Marc’s blog, recap and company.
Derek’s recap.

Great job, Marc!

Photos: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

preston.lee — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:40:54 +0000

Here’s Marc on his new OLPC laptop, which he received for a generous donation. It has a surprising amount of functionality packed inside that adorable green exterior, and found all the local WiFi hotspots immediately. Mega philanthropic props to Marc and all involved. Full resolution shots are available on Flickr.

Rails 2.0: Gmail SMTP With ActionMailer

preston.lee — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:39:40 +0000

Marc just checked in a nifty little Rails 2.0 plugin to the OpenRain public subversion repository which encapsulates the voodoo required to use a Gmail SMTP server with an otherwise ordinary ActionMailer configuration. Gmail requires TLS security, which is why this is useful. Grab the plugin for your Gmail-mooching Rails 2.0 site, here.

Note: I previously wrote about how to do this for Rails 1.2.x here.

Update (2008.06.25): Broken download link fixed!