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Yehuda rises to the call with RailsApp, touching your web pages with hammer, two different ckeditor asset gems, teeny finite state machines with micromachine, diffbench, curator, and Jruby in the Google Summer of Code.

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RailsApp


Well, the kickstarter goal met its first milestone shortly before we went to press, but Yehuda says "More Funding Means Bigger Scope"... so you can still contribute to a worthy cause.

hammer.js


Hammer.js is a jQuery plugin that gives you multitouch interaction - tapping, double-tapping, pinch and zoom, dragging, and even transform - like rotating - and its pretty cross-platform. If you want to make a web page have native mobile device-like features, this should be on your list to check out.

ckeditor-rails


ckeditor is a great collection of javascript and css that turns a text area into a small word processor. This gem bundles that up as an asset gem so you can use it with one css style on a textarea field.

ckeditor


No, this isn't a duplicate story, this is another gem that packages up ckeditor, but this one also includes stuff for handling image uploads, integration with simple form, and a bunch of other nice stuff thanks to rails engines.

micromachine


There are many finite state machine implementations for Ruby, and they all provide a nice DSL for declaring events, exceptions, callbacks, and all kinds of niceties in general. But if all you want is a finite state machine, look at Micromachine. Its only 22 lines of code and provides everything a finite state machine must have, and nothing more.

diffbench

Bogan Gusiev wrote in to tell us about his tool, diffbench. Given a set of performance tests, a patch, and a codebase, it runs the tests both with an without the patch, producing a table with the statistics. You can see it in use on these patches for ActiveRecord, ActiveModel, ActiveSupport, and Mail.

curator


Several events lately led me to publish this gist about persistence patterns beyond ActiveRecord. In the feedback I heard about curator, an implementation of the Repsitory persistence pattern for persistence with Riak.

JRuby GSoC


JRuby has been accepted into Google's Summer of Code again this year. The Jruby crew are looking for ideas to explore as well as for mentors to the program