…we live for it and treat it like our own child, nurturing it into maturity, but there comes a time when every child must flee the nest so…

…we’re giving it away…

…that’s right folks, I’d like to announce the introduction of code.new-bamboo.co.uk.

We hope that over time code.new-bamboo.co.uk will grow to become a great resource for open source projects and code snippets. To kick us off we have…

• PolyPage - A jQuery plugin for adding state to wireframes.
• JSS - a jQuery plugin for adding CSS3 selector support for your stylesheets!
• The Index Inspector - A rails specific rake task for probing your database indexes.
• Dogger - A fun little log helper.

I hope you’ll agree we are off to a great start but we’d love some help so if you have any ideas or suggestions then sound off in the comments for now. hopefully there will be a more formal issue tracker setup soon.

The jQuery plugins are released under the same licensing terms as jQuery itself, snippets aren’t formally licensed but feel free to use and distribute them as you please.

As a follow-up to Rails || Merb, I’m going to highlight some of the differences between ActiveRecord (AR) and Datamapper. Merb is ORM agnostic so you can still use AR if you want to, but I thought I might as well try DataMapper out.

After playing around with merb and data mapper over the holidays, I thought a post on some of the differences that I’ve found between rails and merb might be helpful to someone thinking about trying merb out.