Interesting Things

• Tip: acts_as_solr will revert to using Rexml if it can't find the much faster libxml-ruby. So if your solr processes start to take forever, make sure libxml-ruby is being used.

Interesting Things

• Erector is nearing its initial beta release.

  Erector is a Builder-like view framework, inspired by Markaby but overcoming some of its flaws. In Erector all views are objects, not template files, which allows the full power of object-oriented programming (inheritance, modular decomposition, encapsulation) in views.

• The latest Rails Podcast features Pivotal's Nathan Sobo talking about Treetop.

  Treetop is a language for describing languages. Combining the elegance of Ruby with cutting-edge parsing expression grammars, it helps you analyze syntax with revolutionarily ease.

Ask for Help

• "Can anyone suggest any solutions, or point to a web site that seems to have solved the following problem: an iframe that's showing content from one domain wants to communicate with its parent document that's showing content from another domain, without modifying the parent document's URL or refreshing the parent document's page? Adding Javascript to the parent document is okay, but installing a proxy on the server of the parent document's domain isn't possible."

Interesting Things

• Today is Earth Day
• There are lots of parties around town due to the Web 2.0 Expo

Ask for Help

• "Can anyone recommend a website monitoring service?" Some suggestions were Montastic, Site 24x7 and Scout.