Apologies for the log lag - the last few weeks have been hectic

Gems:

figaro - an interesting take on managing your ENV variables for (author cites for projects that would go up on public repositories)

rolify - role management gem that works with Devise and Cancan

yell - an extensible logging framework

Jewels:

Rails seamless integration with Amazon - article showing how

git immersion - a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it

github's ruby style guide - ruby coding conventions followed by github peeps

Cancan and Railsadmin in Ecommerce - another solid writeup from End Point Blog

books for software-oriented humans - a great collection of books some of which I've read, some of which have been added to the to-read