Rails Envy

Episode 050. We've officially been doing the Rails Envy Podcast for a year now. Thanks everyone!

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• Thin 1.0 « Marc-André Cournoyer’s blog
• tog
• pivotal's desert at master — GitHub
• :: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: shoulda 2.0
• play/type blog. Workling Version 0.3 Released
• Shoulda Testing Cheat Sheet | Kyle Banker
• Codeword: Studios -> Introducing WeatherMan, a Ruby Gem.
• Named_scope backport
• Scotland on Rails
• Load Testing With Log Replay - igvita.com
• Katz Got Your Tongue? » Merb Master Process
• The Merbist » Blog Archive » Get on Merb Edge pre 1.0
• TextMate reigns supreme with ‘Ack in Project’ | eval(code)
• metautonomo.us » Blog Archive » Easy Role-Based Authorization in Rails
• Ruby Tools Roundup - The Devver Blog
• default_value_for Rails plugin: declaratively define default values for ActiveRecord models « Phusion Corporate Blog
• Rails XLS Revived
• Scotland on Rails
• » BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App Ariejan.net
• Top 5 uses for Capistrano
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Rails Development for the Facebook Platform
• :: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: Custom Tags in Liquid
• Fair Answers » Blog Archive » My Month-A-Page Calendar
• Dan Manges's Blog - Testing Fragment Caching

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Episode 049. I have nothing funny or cool to say here. I'm sorry. But hey! How about Apple lifting that iPhone NDA!

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• Migration From RSpec Stories — cucumber — GitHub
• Koz Speaks — Random Musings on Technology: Countries and Controversies
• Pathfinder Development » TankEngine: New plugin for Rails iPhone Development
• Coffee Powered » Powerful, easy, DRY, multi-format REST APIs
• Aimred - Getting The Most Out of IRb With Inspect
• Rails Rumble 2008 :: Welcome to the 2008 Rails Rumble
• JS.Class - Ruby-style JavaScript
• pmade inc. - Understanding Ruby Singleton Classes
• Pathfinder Development » Rails Performance, Code Metrics, and Locking Down your Application: Tips & Tricks from Windy City Rails 2008
• Automatic Rails at Slicehost
• A CouchDB primer for an ActiveRecord mindset | upstream agile - software
• MyUtil™ | Rake task to transfer a Rails database, say from MySQL to Postgres and back again
• Great Lakes Ruby Bash
• MerbOutpost brings MerbCamp to UK, watch MerbCamp meet other Merbists!
• The Merbist by Matt Aimonetti
• Can Merb Scale? (Hint: yes)
• RubyForge: RubyGems: File Release Notes and Changelog
• Updating RubyGems to 1.3.0 on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4

Episode 048. I admit I had a couple of beers before we recorded this week and it's the most offensive podcast ever. Sorry. At least we warned you and bleeped out all the bad words. Well, most of them.

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• Ruby on Rails guides
• Memo-what? - A Guide to Memoization
• Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist - Articles - Matthew Moore
• scie.nti.st » Making methods immutable in Ruby (or, Death to Monkey Patching)
• Buci on Rails | My first DSL in Ruby
• GitHub Tagging Extension
• PaulBarry.com - Concerned With: Skinny Controller, Skinny Model
• Adam @ Heroku. Rifgraf
• InfoQ: Kenai: Project Hosting Built on JRuby on Rails
• MetaSkills.net Using Autotest For Rails Plugin Development
• Nikos D.: Ruby & Rails Jobs (in Europe, USA, and worldwide)
• Extending your irb at ZachInglis.com
• Multiple Attachments in Rails | Practical eCommerce
• Rails App Performance Monitoring // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker

Episode 047. Witty summary here.

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• RPM Lite Released
• MacRuby 0.3
• Terminator - Timeout without Mercy
• Panda - open source video encoding!
• Merb 0.9.7 & New Caching & New Caching
• Fun with Procs in Ruby 1.9
• UNA 1.1
• First Release of Roodi
• UNA Screencast
• UNA 1.1
• Cached Models
• Bort and Bort with email instead of username
• South Carolina Ruby Conference
• The Fail Whale Extension

Episode 046. Another week of interesting news from the Ruby and Ruby on Rails world. If you would like to see written summary of Rails parts of this episode, Gregg cross posted the content to This Week On Rails on the official Rails blog.

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• Rails 2.1.1: Lots of bug fixes
• Rails 2.0.4 Maintenance Release
• Exploring the Ruby Interpreter
• Query memcached
• Searchgasm Released
• How to Scrape Websites using scRUBYt!
• Rails Edge Connection Pooling & Shallow Routes
• Rails Edge: Shallow Routes
• Rails Edge: Mailer Layouts
• Rapid Prototyping with Apache Derby and JRuby on Rails
• 37 Signals Nuts & Bolts: HAproxy
• Unobtrusive JQuery from Scratch
• Neverblock with Rails
• Ruby DCamp October 11-12
• Railsconf Europe Coverage
• Rails Controllers, Views, and Variables

Episode 045. Have fun at RailsConf Europe to all who are attending and if you're going to the Lone Star Ruby Conf, we'll see you there!

The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Rails Kits. Rails Kits provides ready made and tested Rails code for you to use in your projects.. Check them out at RailsKits.com.

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• Mack Framework 0.7.0
• Merb 0.9.5
• Halcyon 0.5.3
• Ruby Security Quick Guide
• Neverblock Mysql Support
• Capistrano 2.5.0
• Continuous Integration - in a Box
• JRuby Server - Zero to Production
• Typo 5.1.3 is out
• Typo on Glassfish
• Introducing RR, Test Doube (or mock) framework
• Rails Summit Latin America
• Merb Camp
• daemon_controller: a library for robust daemon management
• On the Edge: Rescue from dispatching
• Demo of Rails 2.2 interationalization
• Spree Open Source Shopping Cart

Episode 044. We've decided to stop living the lie and are just letting OS X system speech say all names for us from now on.

The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. Check them out at NewRelic.com.

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• Yahoo's BOSS Web Service - Bossman Gem
• Ruby Hoedown Videos
• Ruby 1.9 Sandbox on Leopard
• Amazon Elastic Block Store
• JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on Glassfish
• Neverblock and Neverblog PostGres w/ ActiveRecord
• whatlanguage gem
• Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby
• Agile Project Management Tools
• RSpec: It should behaive like
• Drying up your CRUD controller RSpecs
• Telling a good story - RSpec Stories
• EnvyCasts - Advanced ActiveRecord Screencast
• Interview with DHH
• Rails has Continuous Integration
• How to fix your Rails Helpers

Episode 043. What's an Australian Rails developer's worst nightmare? Listen to the podcast all the way to the end to find out.

The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. Check them out at NewRelic.com.

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• What thread-safe Rails means
• Parsing XML with Ruby
• Conditional Get Support
• MapReduce with inspiration from functional programming
• Rails-doc changes to APIdock.com
• ActiveRecord: Using namespaced Models
• MonetDB adapter for ActiveRecord
• Rails Plugin: dynamically_tags
• Sam Ruby's Ruby 1.9 Slides
• Ruby VM Shootout
• Upcoming Ruby/Rails Workshops:
  
  • Collective Idea is holding a Ruby on Rails training course on August 25-28 in Holland, Michigan for $1495.
  • Satish Talim recently announced the 7th free online ruby programming class. You can register now, and the class starts Saturday, September 6th.
  • October 4th in Austin Texas the Softies on Rails guys are doing a day long REST with Rails workshop. $295 bucks for that.
  • October 14th in Boston, Ma the guys from Thoughtbot are putting together an Advanced Ruby on Rails workshop for $495.
  • The Pragmatic Studio has a Rails studio September 15-17 for $1500, and an Advanced Rails studio November 17-19 for $1700.
• TextMate plugin project plus
• SmartMonth Plugin

Episode 042. I apologize for the delays.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Five Runs. FiveRuns provides Rails developers with a full stack of tools that helps them install, deploy, and maintain their web applications. Check them out at FiveRuns.com.

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• Enumerating Enumerable
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ruby
• Building Static Web Sites with Webby
• Quickly Switch Between Rails Versions
• Faster From XML
• Dizzy CheatSheets
• ViewGem
• Yahoo! Music Battle of the APIs
• Plugin: Localized_dates
• Localizing Rails
• Prawn 0.1.0: Fast, Nimble PDF Generation in Pure Ruby
• Reliable Ruby timeouts with SystemTimer
• UW Extension Ruby Classes
• OEmbed Rails plugin
• Document matching in Ruby
• Git deployment workflow

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Episode 041. Short and sweet this week. Like us.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Five Runs. FiveRuns provides Rails developers with a full stack of tools that helps them install, deploy, and maintain their web applications. Check them out at FiveRuns.com.

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In this episode:

• Hyperactive Resource
• Testing named_scope with Shoulda
• Hoptoad
• It's an HTTParty and Everyone is invited
• Rails:Initial Release 0.1
• EhCache for JRuby
• Config Toolkit:configtoolkit 2.2.0 Released
• PeepCode Rails on Facebook PDF
• Integrating Design Drafts into your Rails app
• openSteam 0.9.1 released
• Get your site indexed by search engines
• Public Service Announcement: Initializers
• Free tickets to Ruby Hoedown
• Hampton Catlin's Ruby Survey
• Introducing ActivePresenter
• Phusion Passenger and FiveRuns Manage