A multi-tenant application platform, much like AppEngine, for Rails applications.

David is my HERO! Anyone interested in starting a business (esp. web 2.0 business) should listen to this talk and take it to heart. Going for the big-payday right out of the gate really seems kind of ridiculous in light of what he's saying.

Quoted: David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.

The Seattle Ruby group meets at Vivace Cafe every Tues night for a "hack-a-thon".

Quoted: Ruby facts, opinions, source code, links, and stuff.

Quoted: Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for hosting Ruby web applications of any kind using plain HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI. It is framework agnostic and already supports Ruby On Rails, Og+Nitro, Camping, and IOWA frameworks.

Current gems supported on DreamHost. (also $50 discount coupon on annual plans here).

This book was the direct inspiration for the ActiveRecord pattern used in Ruby on Rails (according to David H).

Quoted: Amazon.com: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Martin Fowler: Books

Ruby on Rails based media management application - by the author of Scriptaculous. Designed to be a very rich internet application (feels like a desktop app).

Quoted: fluxiom is a web-based asset management tool that lets you capture, manage, access and deliver files across your enterprise.