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The health monitor gem allows you to monitor your rails application through a single controller action. In addition to built in database and server environment checks, health monitor allows you to quickly add your customized health checks to the mix.

Download  crying databases from Aloha Rails Conf.

Rails is at Hawaii 10/5 OMG

Been a long time. shouldn’t of left ya without a dope plugin to step to. meh. But for reals, I’ve been working way too much. Here’s a tasty sampler of some new and revived github projects:

ActiveRecord Dumper
Asset Tag Extensions
Ruby Prof Request Filters
Google Base4r extensions

ActiveRecord Dumper
script/plugin install http://github.com/blythedunham/ar_dumper
Dumper. I barely know her! I wrote this ages [...]

Snippet to log ActiveRecord output to stdout at specified log level for Rake tasks.

ar_test_runner provides a rake task to run the ActiveRecord core test suites with your plugins or files loaded. Make sure ActiveRecord tasks pass with your enhancements.

The big takeaway from this years RailsConf is: everyone loves UNICORNS! Learn how to cornify your site like a rockstar.

This presentation includes some good tips on how to integrate with sms, especially for Rails applications. The SMS on Rails engine plugin demo steps are included.

Join the club: Rails Devs for Data Integrity
Some ways to handle unique and foreign key violations database exceptions gracefully in rails.

Today I present Taking Active Record To the Next Level at the MySQL Conference and Expo! There is a lot of excitement in the Rails world due to Rails 3 merge with Merb which will provide framework agnosticism for the people. However, good, old, (sometimes not playing nice with MySQL) ActiveRecord is still the defacto [...]