Google Summer of Code

Let the summer begin!

I am a mentor in this year's Google Summer of Code. There are a few good projects in the Ruby area. The project I am mentoring hopes to ease the debugging of rails applicaitons by creating an irb session in the browser window whenever there is a exception. The student is Minciu Dumitru Eugen. He and I started talking yesterday about the project and I think it will be a huge success. I am hopeful that the result of this project will be very useful to rails developers and might even make it into core. The first step is to overcome the broken breakpointer (since ruby 1.8.5), but Eugen is well on his way. I wish Eugen the best of luck this summer and I will do everything I can to help him succeed.