atom thoughts

Active Resource was just removed from the Rails 1.2 release branch. So, it looks like it will not be shipping with the release.

After a quick search I couldn’t find any more information about it, but I would expect an announcement will follow shortly. So you may need to stick with edge for a while longer if you are counting on Active Resource support.

I personally think it is better for them to get this one right before mass distribution since this feature has such a wide impact on Rails development. Better to pull it now and fine tune it versus releasing something that will change drastically between releases.

Dr Nic just ported over all of TextMate’s Rails snippets as RadRails templates. These should definitely add a boost to your productivity as you can type most commands for Rails development in just a few keystrokes. I have been meaning to spend more time getting Eclipses templates incremented into my dev process and this is just the boost I needed.

Get your templates and read Dr. Nic’s announcement on his blog.

I just released another version of the Gift Hat. You can read all about it on the Gift Hat blog. Stop by and check it out.

This should free up some time for me to start blogging a bit more. I have a bit of a backlog of topics I want to discuss. You should start seeing some more posts starting next week.