Recently I've been on a hacking high, touching a lot of code, and in touch with a lot of cool programmers. In retrospect I'm surprised at the variety of stuff I've been doing, so I thought I'd write a short list.

Here's a neat Ruby trick for fans of Symbol#to_proc.

'less' is a great tool for browsing Rails log files, though you might not guess it if you try to view your "development.log" with it.

Our big celebrity charity news site runs on Rails, and I've just switched all the view code from erb to haml. I cut the total number of lines of view code from 2370 to 1788, which makes for a saving of 25%.

I'm happy to announce that my db_console plugin for Rails has just been added to Rails Core.

Rubygems is kind enough to generate RDoc for installed gems, but the directories move as the gem versions evolve, and it's inconvenient to keep browsing for them. This tool produces a useful HTML index with direct links to the RDocs for all the gems installed on your system.