A few nights ago I registered lincolnrb.org and I'm hoping to get something going there. I know a few guys in town that are either into or interested in Ruby, so i'd be awesome to work on some projects together.
We use ssh to vnc into workstations at our various locations... With more than 75 machines at 4 separate locations, keeping track of the IPs and gateways gets a little crazy. I wrote ssh_vnc to give us a super easy way to manage the info (just a simple YML file) and it gives you a menu so you can select the tunnel to use. It'll start the tunnel while you point your vnc viewer to localhost:0 and then when you're done, it'll close the tunnel.
misc project reorganization
All of my apps are getting a little bit of a refresh... I'm experimenting with ways to handle a single-login arrangement across all 8 apps. Most of our users are station employees that have access to several of our apps, so expecting them to log in to each one separately is pretty ridiculous. I dug myself into this hole by expecting new projects to be added as new controllers, but I instead wrote new projects as separate apps on subdomains.
I do like the separate app arrangement, because I can keep nice and clean repos separate and comfortably upgrade pieces without worrying too much. Yes, I already know that more rspec testing would solve the problem. I need to rent an rspec whiz for tutoring, or something.