attr_serializable on GitHub
http://github.com/joeyschoblaska/attr_serializable/tree/master
attr_serializable is my first plugin for Rails. It makes it easy to follow best practices and define a whitelist of attributes for each model to use in their to_xml and to_json methods.
Teddy Roosevelt - To the Man in the Arena
http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/teddy_roosevelt_to_the_man_in_the_arena.php
"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
