Dr Nic has written a tutorial on testing JavaScript in Rails using a new javascript_test plugin.

Troels Knak-Nielsen writes a good overview on how PHP relates to functional programming and might be where PHP is heading in the next version. PHP is dynamically-typed and weakly-typed. Ruby, Python are dynamically-typed and strongly-typed.

Rails 2.0: Multiviews, moving towards REST over SOAP, and better native security and performance. [ via WAXY ]

APPLEBOX is a recreation (to an extent) of the iTunes store. According to their blog, they are using Ruby On Rails and “Serverless AJAX”. I wondered what the latter was, and the comments in Ajaxian seems to address this term. I’m thinking this is more proof of concept than anything - this doesn’t work in Safari. And I doubt it works on an iPhone or iTouch, or any iPod for that matter.

Here’s a list of php and ruby (maybe others) libraries that exist which implement OpenID Authentication 1.1 and 2.0