Living on the Edge

Hobo for Rails

Posted on April 06, 2007

There’s been some buzz lately about Hobo, a plugin extension to the Rails framework that makes it easy to do rapid prototyping of web applications. You can find out about all of the features at the HoboCentral website. One exciting feature is the implementation of DRYML, a way of drying up your views and providing extendable tag libraries.

Check out the screencasts. They’re very well done. I haven’t been this stunned by a screencast since I saw the original DHH Rails screencast. It’s exciting times.

Textile Editor

Posted on April 03, 2007

The fine folks developing Slate, a content management system for Rails, have just released a Textile Editor plugin. This works well in conjunction with Err the Blog’s acts_as_textiled plugin.