We’ve been waiting for this release for some time. It looks like CentOS 5.3 is now going to be released on March 31. Stay tuned and let us know if you need help in upgrading.
Rails 2.3 is finally done and out the door. This is one of the most substantial upgrades to Rails in a very long time. A brief rundown of the top hitters:
Templates: Allows your new skeleton Rails application to be built your way with your default stack of gems, configs, and more.
Engines: Share reusable application pieces complete with routes that Just Work, models, view paths, and the works.
Rack: Rails now runs on Rack which gives you access to all the middleware goodness.
Metal: Write super fast pieces of optimized logic that routes around Action Controller.
Nested forms: Deal with complex forms so much easier.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We’ve put together a complete guide for the Rails 2.3 release notes with much more information. Be sure to checkout the section on what was deprecated when you’re ready to upgrade your application.
You install 2.3 with (the final version is marked 2.3.2):
gem install rails
If you’re running on Passenger, be sure to upgrade to 2.1.2 as well. Rails 2.3 doesn’t run on older versions of Passenger!
We hope you’ll love it.
The OSS Database is now available in a nice list view on your iPhone. Hit it at http://imapenguin.com/oss_projects like you normally would from your phone and let us know what you think.
We’ve been working (and still are working) on the new website that we launched last week. A new feature we added was an Open Source database of popular Open Source software.
This data is available via the web: http://imapenguin.com/oss_projects
This data is also available via XML and JSON. Need help? Let us know.
Check it out and let us know what you think.
Changes are happening all around here. We’re launching a new site in stages over the next week or so. Do penguin’s sweat? The ones here are 
Thanks for the tip from @al3x on the XThemes tool. I love the midnight theme in textmate and now my eyes are happy in XCode.
Want to save some time when installing on Ubuntu? We do too:
Check it out on the brightlight blog:
Unattended Passenger / Ruby Enterprise Installation on Ubuntu 8
We’re busy testing our apps on rails 2.2 now that it’s out.
Things are going very well. We’re here to help you with yours if you need us, send an email to support@imapenguin.com
As most of you know, Ubuntu 8.10 is set to be released next week.
As usual at Ubuntu upgrade time, we’re here to help with questions and issues.
Drop us a line at support@imapenguin.com anytime.
37 signals launched a “Deals” feature in Highrise that we’ve always thought should be there. Since spiresales was our attempt to give this to highrise, it doesn’t make sense for us to soldier on with it.
It’s a good thing really, having deals in highrise is where it belongs and it gives us penguins time and resources to concentrate on what we’re best at: delivering great solutions with Open Source software.