Another week, another sweep.

• Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow: Patches to Improve Performance 5x; Memory Profiling

• Guerilla's Guide to Optimizing Rails Applications

• SwitchPipe. Supposably an easy way to deploy web applications written in Rails, Camping, Ramaze, Merb and what have you.

• Anvil - Ruby MVC GUI Library

• Tapping Method Chains with Ruby 1.9. A nice gem in Ruby 1.9.

• Static typing considered harmful. While the post itself is spot on, it was more the quote from Stuart Halloway that caught my eye: "In 5 years, we'll view compilation as the weakest form of unit testing." I have nothing to add.

• The Ultimate List of RubyCocoa Tutorials, Tips and Tools.

• Ruby Cheat Sheets

• 21 Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources. Kudos to Peter Cooper for putting these lists together.

• Heroku. An in-browser Rails environment. Code, collaborate, click deploy, and see your app running on EC2, all from your browser. Looking forward to giving it a go.

• FancyZoom. My word, that is smooth JavaScript image zooming, Panic style.