gem that wraps myemma's remote signup API

postgres search gem for rails/activerecord

authorization (not authentication) gem for rails

basically a wrapper around libcurl for ruby that supports parallel request execution, memoization of responses and caching.

useful to determine whether a gem works w/ Ruby 1.9 -- the 1.8 -> 1.9 migration is just slightly less painful than the php4 -> php5 migration also under way...

this is a huge pain in the ass. these worked for me.

the magic words for installing the ruby mysql gem on OS X: "sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config"

If vanilla Rails just isn't fast enough, Hobo makes it even easier to write a fully functional web app fast ... reportedly