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"What's the best admin gem out there?"

• I've used typus and it's great, https://github.com/fesplugas/typus
• I know Erik Michaels-Ober has a good admin gem, https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin
• Active scaffold isn't admin specific but that could work

Interesting

"Amazon Web Services is down"

This is one of the longest outages we've seen of Amazon and thus Heroku. So many Ruby applications rely on Heroku that the community is certainly affected. Updates on the damage are on Heroku and Amazon. You can see how far reaching problems on EC2 are on ec2disabled.com

"Obama is in town!"

There have been rumors he is visiting a few notable software companies in the area, hopefully he'll stop by. Watch out for blocked streets for the motorcade.

Help!

Jasmine fixtures A Pivot was bothered by the occasionally stale state of Jasmine .html fixtures. If you're following a workflow similar to the recent Jasmine Railscast then your fixture files will undoubtable deviate from the 'reality' of your application. JB posted a solution that address the issue of quickly generating and loading .html fixture files, but this Pivot's concern was having to manually kick off that process. It seems like watchr would be a good tool to monitor app/views and call one's fixture generation process.

encoding of regular expressions in 1.9 Executing regular expressions over input of unknown encodings has caused headaches for people using Ruby 1.9. When the encoding of the regex and input differ Ruby throws an Encoding::CompatibilityError. The only solution we've seen is to change the encoding of either the input or expression to match the other, as seen here.