Nybbl

Nybbl is an interesting product of the recent RailsRumble. Although still in its infancy it looks like it could be an interesting way of sharing knowledge about specific topics - some free, some not.

Access is currently through your twitter account, but once in you can have your nybbls' delivered through your iPhone, SMS, or twitter. I wish it worked for me, but at the moment I just get errors. Hopefully that will be fixed soon though!

Installing BackgrounDRb

BackgrounDRb is a job scheduling library for the ruby programming language.

I had a right old ding dong with it when trying to install it into a rails app I'm working on, what with the documentation being a little out of date (I think) plus there being a load of confusing page on the net. In the end what worked for me was:

  # sudo gem install chronic packet
  # cd rails_app
  # script/plugin install http://svn.devjavu.com/backgroundrb/trunk
  # rake backgroundrb:setup
  # rake db:migrate

So far this has worked for me...