- Chad Fowler and Marcel Molina are holding a full-day Rails testing tutorial on the day before the sessions of RailsConf Europe. That would be September 17th. You’re expected to fork over $75 for the entry, but fear not, the money is for a good cause and the donation is tax-deductible.
- A while ago Ola Bini called for an implementation of Hibernate for JRuby. Johan Andries is giving it a try: ActiveHibernate on Google Code (via InfoQ)
- A year after the initial listing on their website, The Pragmatic Programmers announced “Deploying Rails Applications”. Written by Ezra Zygmuntowicz (of BackgrounDRb fame) and Bruce Tate it aims to offer all kinds of wisdom about running Rails applications in the wild. It’s still in beta, but I know I’m gonna grab a copy.
- Adding time zones to a Rails application is something I was doing this week. Of great help were the introduction by Jamis Buck and an article by Courtenay of caboose fame