There are a couple of cool new technology releases today: Google Gears is a browser extension providing a set of Javascript APIs for offline web applications. Review Board is a web based code review application from the folks at VMWare. No CVS support (yet), sadly.

I just upgraded to version 1.99 of Capistrano, the remote deployment tool most commonly used for Rails projects. This is a prerelease of Capistrano 2.0 and installed easily with the following commands: sudo gem install highline sudo gem install -s http://gems.rubyonrails.com capistrano Highline is a new (at least on my machine) dependency for Capistrano and needs to be installed separately because it isn’t present in the gems.rubyonrails.org repository. Following the upgrade instructions I ran capify . Read more

I had a chance to play around with Capistrano this weekend. It’s a cool little tool and it works very well.

This is nice to know: Subversion’s default keyword substitution setting is exactly opposite of CVS’. Subversion will never attempt to perform textual substitutions on your file contents unless explicitly asked to do so. So that’s why -kb isn’t ever necessary when svning.