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The RailsEnvy guys do a pretty outrageous parody of the Mac vs PC ads, this time with Ruby on Rails vs DJango.

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Great tutorial on how to develop a Facebook application from scratch with Ruby ON Rails.

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Well it’s been very busy at work at the moment but I have been continuing on with the GotoCodecamp.com using the Hobo Framework. I am now working on some CSS styling and trying to slip in the the Google Maps feature before releasing a beta.

I am trying to keep the features to a minimum at the moment (37 Signals like) as I don’t want to bloat the app. Here’s to a few more candle burning nights….

Don’t forget if you have created a Hobo app then post it on the forum. I’m going to do that once the first release is out.

Happy Hoboing everyone….

Last night I had my geek hat on again and downloaded the Hobo Framework gem after hearing about it on the Rubyoligy podcast.

Watching their quicktime videos gives you an insight into how cool this framework/plugin actually is, so I recommend you start there first.

As a test I took my GotoCodeCamp.com project as a test and started from scratch. In about 5 minutes I had a working site with the ability for users to sign up and add their code camp info.

I am very impressed with the features they have added to Rails and don’t be mistaken that this is another scaffold, it’s not, far from it.

The DRYML (Don’t repeat yourself markup language) looks very interesting but I need to work in this a bit more to get a feel of it.

I intend to work further on the GotoCodeCamp.com using Hobo so you can then see the results on the website.

Each stage will be published so you can see its progress along with screencasts on Funcoder.

Even if your not into .NET development it is still good news for the Ruby world that Microsoft is creating a DLR called IronRuby.

You may recognise this as there is already IronPython and I would think a whole host of new implementations now that DLR has gone open source.

So there are now lots of choices to develop Ruby solutions, from TextMate to Netbeans and now Visual Studio.

This is great for the future of Ruby and the Rails framework.

The OpenID movement looks like its really picked up in the last month. With this in mind I have registered at MyOpenID and wanted to learn about integrating this technology into my forthcoming GotoCodeCamp web app.

I found a ton of information at

http://leancode.com/openid-for-rails/

which I would highly recommend.

With Apollo out of the bag we are now seeing other tools performing similar functionality.

The one that has caught my eye today is Slingshot by Joyent. As a Ruby on Rails developer this realy has fired my creative mind. From what i have read on the Joyent blog, Slingshot will allow you to build Rails applications for the desktop and run the offline.

More information:

Technical overview
Screencast

I will publish more information about this new technology when I have been able to create a test application.