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Here on rail one, we have Amy Hoy’s article on using script/console to do debugging. It’s chock full of tips and tricks, and was super-useful when I was tooling around over vacation. It’s Hoyesque! You know you’re rockin’ when you become an adjective or an adverb. At least, a positive one. Don’t even ask what Kuneshesque has been used for.

Over on rail two we have some n00b picture of Rails model associations. Given that I am a n00b, I like it. It’s nice. Nice, not earth-shattering. So, on to earth-shattering. Holy crap! It’s Matt Biddulph’s hackdiary. I saw Matt give his presentation at RailsConf 2006 and thought, “that’s one smart cookie.” Then I saw this script, and thgouth, “that’s one smart CAKE!”

Check out this script which lets you take a Rails app, converts the associations to a GraphViz format that you can then import into OmniGraffle. Since the mac lacks a decent entity relationship diagramming tool and I am too lazy to create one by hand, this is a lifesaver. It totally justified hours of web browsing and and reading on New Year’s Day.

Mac Heist Bundle is featuring some really good software, and the authors are donating money to charity. On the topic of apps, Aptana is a recent entry into the web IDE market. I may check this out while on vacation. On the topics of Macs, I’ve had the misfortune of having to visit this page.