Rails Snippets - 11/29

Nov 29, 2007 Ruby Rails

Initial performance numbers would seem to indicate that Ruby 1.9 (due by Christmas) will be lots faster.

If you spend a lot of time in IRB (most of us probably do), it’s worth taking the time to learn how to customize it. This is a good start.

Nice clean library to generate fake data. The home page says it’s a port of Perl’s Data::Faker library, which I’d never even heard of.