I’ve been doing a lot of rails development recently and wanted to write some thoughts:

• I forgot that it was buttonto not buttonfor and button_to is really quite useful.
• I came across 2 rails-based shopping cart projects: substruct and Spree.
• I found rails-fast-sessions (also FastSessions Rails Plugin Released) which looks like a likely candidate to supersede SqlSessionStore.
• Masquerade is a Ruby on Rails OpenID server.

I spent a few hours this weekend trying to test KDE 4 in Ubuntu only to find it unusable. I tried to different virtual machines but both had the same problem: immediately after logging in the session ends and returns to the login screen. I spent longer than I'd care to admit trying to resolve the problem but to no avail. I was able to find reports of similar behavior but no useful solutions. I think I may just give up on KDE 4 until the 4.1 version is released and made available.

A changelog for the recent versions of Passenger (1.0.3-1.0.5) was recently posted. I decided to do a quick upgrade to 1.0.5 following the steps I’ve used previously. Those steps are documented as follows.