Here's the cool shit from railsconf. An overview of all talks is here, https://github.com/newhavenrb/railsconf2012
- WAL-E A S3 based WAL-shipping disaster recovery and standby toolkit
- Cane - Fails your build if code quality thresholds are not met
- Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
- Gem In A Box - Really simple rubygem hosting
- Rails Behaviors - Rails UJS Behaviors for jQuery and Zepto
- Rack::Worker - Rack middleware that implements the Worker Pattern to process generic GET requests in the background and only serve them from a cache.
- Hstore
- Ar4
- hstore_demo
- Sequel
- Wcld
- Plv8js
- Json:selects
- Marginalia - Attach comments to ActiveRecord's SQL queries
- StatsD - Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation
- StatsD Ruby - A ruby client for StatsD
- Resque StatsD - Resque Statsd is a Resque plugin that will collect and send data samples from your Resque Jobs to Graphite
- Stack smashing
- Basecamp Next Code Spelunking
- 10 things you didn't know rails could do
- Schemaless SQL (PosgreSQL)
- HTML5 WYSIWYG editor - https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5
- Rake - use
Rake.enhanceto add behavior to a rake task - JS - console.count, console.group/groupEnd, console.profile/profileEnd, console.warning, console.error, console.debug, console.trace
- JS history API - https://github.com/balupton/history.js
- Rails - ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging - http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/TaggedLogging.html
- HTTP Status descriptions - http://httpstatus.es/
Minitest is pretty sweet, and is built into 1.9