So, how do Tada and Basecamp do dynamic virtual hosts to give each user their own subdomain? Drop this in ApplicationController:

 before_filter { |c| c.account =
   Account.find_by_subdomain(c.request.subdomains.first) }

Bravo. Requires a ServerName *.tadalist.com in the Apache VHost configuration and an accounts table with a subdomain field. (seen among #rubyonrails quotes.)

Twelve dollar kit from The Red Hat Society. An unbelievable array of unintentional pun crossover for fans of ruby-1.8.2-28.i386.rpm who frost their hair.

Naturally, the kit’s default slogan—“Ruby Relaxes”—could be replaced. Try “Ruby Cracks My Back” or “After an Evening of REXML, I Am Putty in the Palm of My Sturdy, Red Easychair.” Also see: I Shall Wear Purple and Red.

If you have been participating in the Rails mailing list, then you’re helping to author this blog. And if you’re on Ruby-Talk, then you’re posting here. And, Ruby-Core is this blog.

This is excellent! If you can’t keep up with all the Ruby-Talk messages, scale back to the RSS feeds of the above instead. Its threading isn’t perfect, but it tries to pin a country flag on the authors, which is especially pertinent to our divergent peoples.

Ryan Davis says ruby2c is mere hours away. His goal has been to translate the entire Ruby stdlib. Which is happening.