I attended the AZ on Rails User Group meeting last night hosted by Integrum (http://integrumtech.com/). This episode includes 1 of the 2 presentations delivered last night. This one is on Merb, a Ruby framework, and was presented by Josh Knowles of Integrum. His personal blog can be found at http://joshknowles.com/

Back on episode #9, we covered Hobo which is a framework that runs on top of Ruby on Rails. By popular demand, we have been asked to put together a screencast on Hobo. This is the first of a series of Hobo screencasts. I hope that you enjoy them.

Join us for a crash course on Camping's database tools and the SQLite database. This episode covers sessions, models, controllers, and views plus a brief intro of the SQLite database access.

By popular demand, we are going to cover Why's Camping framework again but this time via a screen cast rather than an audio podcast. It's almost 18 minutes of Camping fun and it includes an exercise to determine if Bill Gates is really evil or not.

I decided to combine all of the podcasts and screencasts into the same numbering system. I hope that you enjoy this one on SOAP-based web services!

Okay - your site is successful. 1 hit, 100 hits, 1000 hits... How do you scale Ruby on Rails to meet your customers' demands? It's easier than you might think!

SDBM (formerly DBM) is a native Ruby string-based hash file-storage system. Let me know what kind of uses you can think of for this solution!

This week's podcast covers those little letter images known as captchas on registration pages as well as re-using existing Rails code on new applications. Okay, we also cover some Ruby news and new gems.

BYOWS - Build Your Own Web Server! In addition to touching on Microsoft's new SilverScreen multimedia framework and Joyent's SlingShot Rails deployment application, we cover some interesting Ruby web server code found in an older discounted Ruby 1.6.6 book. It's still applicable today and supports threading!

Check out Jamey Cribbs' open sourced database called KirbyBase! It's a quite powerful database application written in Ruby and takes up approximately 100kb of memory. KirbyBase can be found at http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html