links for 2008-01-03

Technology
[Ruby.NET vs. IronRuby: What's The Difference? - O'Reilly Windows DevCenter Blog](https://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2008/01/rubynet_vs_ironruby_whats_the.html) Nice comparison of Ruby.NET and IronRuby (tags: [Ruby](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/Ruby)) [Learning Rails podcast, for web designers and developers](https://www.buildingwebapps.com/podcasts) New podcast on learning Ruby on Rails (tags: [tutorial](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/tutorial) [rubyonrails](https://del.icio.us/rbazinet/rubyonrails)) [Shades of Gray: Getting Code Ready for Ruby 1.9](https://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/getting_code_ready_for_ruby_19) Nice information about getting...

acts_as_conference looks like the deal of the year

Ruby on Rails
In case anyone has missed the announcement of the upcoming acts_as_conference conference in Orlando, Fl on February 8-9, 2008, act now before it’s sold out. The best part is the conference only costs $100.00. The conference is a two-day Ruby on Rails conference with a great list of speakers and...

Instant Rails 2.0 Released on RubyForge

Instant Rails
I have been working hard on getting the latest and greatest components of Instant Rails 2.0 put together into a coherent release to RubyForge. It has been a bit more time consuming bringing it all together, learning the components of the project, learning more about Subversion than I knew already...

My David Heinemeier Hansson Rails 2.0 Interview up on InfoQ

InfoQ
I had the opportunity to interview David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby on Rails creator, recently for InfoQ and it went live today. I was very impressed with David’s willingness to talk to me given the interview occurred right after the Rails 2.0 release. I am sure I was not the only...

Setting up SQLite3 for Ruby on Rails Development

Ruby on Rails
UPDATE: Thanks to an astute reader, it seems to have full SQLite3 support on Windows you need to add the SQLite3.dll and the SQLite3.def files also in your path. I put these in my ruby/bin folder, which is where they will be in the Instant Rails release coming up.