So this is a neat project for you Ruby on Rails learners…. Reddit on Rails is an exercise to use your knowledge of Rails to replicate the functionality of reddit.com.

By now you have the knowledge to accomplish much with Rails. We will use that knowledge to build a website from scratch similar in functionality to http://reddit.com.

Learning a new programming language or system generally go faster if you have a specific goal in mind, and (in general) a typical “hello world” works great, until you decide you need user logins and permissions and suddenly things get a lot harder. This helps that a lot.

RubyMine 4.5 is Here

Congrats to the Jetbrains team for another great looking release.  As always you can hit the What’s New page  for all the new bits.  A few highlights:

• SASS, Slim and Sinatra
• MongoDB and Mongoid
• Rails Engines
• Capistrano
• (My favorite) “Renaming model magic” for more awesome refactoring
• Improved Mac support with native help and retina display support

Note that 4.5 is a free update for everyone who purchased their RubyMine license after July 18, 2011.

After almost a year and a half of development it looks like the new JetBrains RubyMine 4.0 is the best yet.  They boast far faster performance, the ability to drill deep into gems, a new UI, event log view, Rails 3.2 support, and a ton of other things.    Hit up the What’s New page, and then head over and download the 30 day free trial.

Seems things in the Rails world are moving faster and fast, but it could be just me.  Congrats to the Rails dev team for their release this morning of Ruby on Rails 3.2!

So we didn’t quite make the December release date as we intended, but hey, why break a good tradition and start hitting release targets now! In any case, your patience has been worldly rewarded young grasshopper: Rails 3.2 is done, baked, tested, and ready to roll!

Biggest thing in here for Ruby Newbies I think is the explain queries, which will show exactly what’s going on and help with debugging and performance tuning.  Other things of note is a faster dev mode, an active record key/value store (look out noSQL databases!) and much more.

Via Riding Rails: Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store.

If you’re a fan of IDEs for your Rails programming, head over to JetBrains as RubyMine 4.0 Beta is Available for Download.

The JetBrains guys have announced that the RubyMine 4.0 Early Access is Open to all.  Check out the release notes for more details (including screenshots) or just grab it and go!