Hey Everyone!

We use FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/flatsoft for collecting some usefull  links around Ruby/Rails and other IT news.

Will try to make weekly reviews of them.

Web applications exploits and defenses from Goole

You will get application with full of exploits and nice list what are XSS, DoS and how to defense from them.

Howto monitor your linux server with netstat

• netstat -lnp - who and on which port
• netstat -ant - active connections and states
• netstat -ant | grep 80 | wc -l - open connections on 80 port (http)

Why, when and how write Open source, should motivate you )

Raiscast: Introducing Devise
New awesome auth rails gem, could replace authlogic.

Ruby Packaging Standard, 0.5-draft
Good example how to write Ruby libs/gems, naming standards, directory hierarchy and other. For example FooBar or Foo::Bar?

Hopping in the cloud
Very good article from Robots with their experience how the develop HopToad application.  They use Redis for delayed jobs (look like and we can use it production). BTW, guys from Github develop new nice solution using Redis http://github.com/blog/542-introducing-resque

Unobtrusive JavaScript
Article from Ryan Bates how to use JS observers instead of inline calls in the element.

Thanks,
Timur