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Earlier today, David Heinemeier Hansson posted on the Ruby on Rails weblog regarding an urgent Ruby on Rails security patch (Rails version 1.1.5 ). No detailed information regarding the nature of the vulnerability was mentioned in the post, but it does sound very serious. Originally all Rails versions starting at 0.13 were supposed to be affected, which would have been extremely bad news for the many individuals and businesses out there who are running a production site on Rails 1....

I just found this very nice Ruby on Rails reference. Both a 33-page PDF version and an even nicer HTML version with colors and syntax highlighting are available.

Geoffrey Grossenbach recently posted two excellent articles on using and implementing Rails plugins:

Extreme Programming advocate Ron Jeffries recently posted a very good article on the Impact of Overtime on Productivity. Among many other good points, he lists the following indicators that things might be going wrong. I am sure some of these will look familiar to many of you… Is the ratio of test lines to code lines going down? Is the ratio of customer tests to features going down? Is time spent fixing bugs going up?...

gotAPI.com provides a very nice collection of reference documentation for various languages and technologies, including HTML, CSS, Ruby (incl. Rails), Java, various Java APIs (Struts, etc.), MySQL, Ant, and more. Very handy!