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Following the concise yet complete instructions on how to start using the Rails 2.1.0 release candidate from the awesome Getting Rails 2.1 RC1 podcast, I gave it a very quick spin today in one of my projects.

Right after the installation one of the gems refused to work. It was HAML — an excellent HTML builder extension — that blamed Rails for not having some hook registration function call. Taking the latest master copy from github of HAML (which is 1.9.0 there at the moment) solved the problem, but then something else jumped out. RSpec doesn’t work very well with Rails 2.1 at its present state, and every controller test was yelling at me.

Let’s say, it was a bad luck and hopefully I’ll do better next time when they finally release the thing. Got back to Rails 2.0.2 for now.

I’m a huge fan of Firebug — the top notch JavaScript / CSS debugging plug-in for Firefox — but recently it became completely unusable to me.

With the release of Ubuntu 8.04 the main browser now is Firefox 3 that comes as the default. Official Firebug doesn’t work with FF3, but there’s a development branch that does, well kind of. There are many sharp corners and rough edges in this latest development, but it was fantastic. Several days away from the installation I noticed my FF3 to begin crashing every now and then.

Today I finally had to remove the extension since the browser could crash 2-5 times a minute. I literally spent half a day trying to work on the site for my client. That’s unaffordable luxury.

For now I’ll be using the excellent Web Developer extension (ah, I miss that sexy JavaScript console of Firebug), but will be monitoring the Firebug development progress with a hope to get back to it soon.

I can’t help solving puzzles. Every now and then I buy a new box and we solve it together with Kate all days and night long until it’s finally done. I guess, now our family budget is saved.

Discovery channel has a number of interesting games, but this one is really a gem.

See more interesting games:

• River IQ

Also try:

Here are the amazing “Techno Is Not A Joke” series on YouTube from The Pod: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

I share their views to some extent. Techno is a universal music that you can use to express yourself, make people dance or make them think about the past / present / future, or do other magic with minds and souls.

Links were found at Music Thing.