--- title: Jester In The News teaser: tags: news,web,jester author: Eric Mill published_on: 2008-07-15 --- [Jester](https://github.com/thoughtbot/jester) is seeing a little action nowadays. The [Google Code Blog](http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/take-your-rails-application-offline.html) has a post today about [Google Gears on Rails](https://code.google.com/p/gearsonrails/), a Rails plugin by Michael Marcus and Rui Ma, that extends Jester to wrap over [Google Gears](https://gears.google.com/). It effectively lets your controllers read and write directly to your users' machines, so they can use your app offline. Check out the [install and usage instructions](https://code.google.com/p/gearsonrails/) for details, and listen to the [Google Developer Podcast episode](https://google-developer-podcast.googlecode.com/files/gearsonrails-googledeveloperpodcast.mp3) where the authors are interviewed. [Nat Budin](http://blog.natbudin.com/) also just [announced](http://blog.natbudin.com/?p=369) that he used Jester to build an in-place-editor plugin called [JIPE](http://ae-rails-plugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jipe/). He's built some pretty cool Rails helpers for in-place editing that are more sophisticated than what Rails offers by default. Check out [the README](http://ae-rails-plugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jipe/README) for install/usage instructions, it's pretty easy. These two projects are great evidence that Jester makes for a great supporting library, something easily built on and extended. Rails' REST conventions are powerful stuff, and I hope people keep thinking of more ways to prove that. [Using Jester](https://github.com/thoughtbot/jester) [Jester on Github](https://github.com/thoughtbot/jester/tree/master)