Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #086: 07/08/2009

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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #086: 07/08/2009

by gregg on Jul 08, 2009

Episode 86. We bring you the latest news in the Ruby and Rails world. This week features co-host Nathan Bibler, tequila, a singing robot, and a Hoedown. What more could you ask for?

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Show Notes

  • Ruby Tube - Ruby Videos/Screencasts
  • Rumblestiltskin – Rails Rumble Ideas
  • Sitemap Generator Plugin
  • Rails Black Box Testing Complex Models
  • Get Your API Right
  • Patron: a Ruby HTTP client library
  • MacRuby Drops GIL, Gains Concurrent Threads
  • A Dozen or so ways to start Sub-processes in Ruby
  • How to create small, unique tokens in Ruby
  • Apps for America 2
  • Rails Rescue Handbook
  • Ruby Hoedown
  • Upcoming Railscamp Events
  • Hampton’s Ruby Survey
  • Haml & Sass 2.2 Released
  • Anemone – Spidering Websites
  • Driving Business Processes in Ruby
  • Rails Magazine – Issue #3
  • 6 Reasons to use Webbynode
  • The Humans are Dead & Binary Solo

Update: After pushing out the podcast, I received the following Tweet from @thoughtbot:

LOL, see.. thoughtbot's can sing!

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Jim Neath – July 08, 2009 @ 10:06 AM

Kudos on Flight of the Conchords :)


Eric Berry – July 08, 2009 @ 12:17 PM

Does anyone know if patron supports ssl? It doesn’t appear to have any flags and using it with a regular ssl website for posting returns an error.


Gregg Pollack – July 08, 2009 @ 12:27 PM

Jim: I’m a big fan too, glad you got the reference

Eric: I’m not sure, I haven’t used it. Perhaps you should email the author?


Kevin Runde – July 08, 2009 @ 03:50 PM

What happened to Episode 085?


Phil Toland – July 08, 2009 @ 04:19 PM

I am the author of Patron. It doesn’t currently support SSL; it wasn’t something we needed when I wrote it. Now that it is open source I am very interested in feedback from the community about what features it needs. SSL has been added to the list.

Feel free to report issues at http://github.com/toland/patron/issues/.

~p


Carl – July 08, 2009 @ 05:05 PM

@Kevin, 8+5 = 13, so maybe they skipped it because they thought it would be unlucky? ;^)


Nick Pettit – July 08, 2009 @ 07:01 PM

Thanks for mentioning http://RubyTu.be from our buddy Matt Williams.

Oh, and Flight of the Conchords FTW! :)


Gregg Pollack – July 09, 2009 @ 12:34 AM

Kevin: Jason was in charge of getting out episode 85 last Wednesday. honestly haven’t heard from him about it. Sorry.


Keivn Runde – July 09, 2009 @ 11:51 AM

@Carl, Good point! I hadn’t considered that these two would be so superstitious. :-)

@Gregg: Cool there really is supposed to be an Episode 085 then. Seriously you and Jason do an amazing job with this podcast. I love how you two and your guest speakers are able to keep the content relevant yet not boring. I also like how the podcast is usually about 10 to 20 minutes. That is just enough time that I can listen to it with out being int interrupted … usually. I strongly believe its because of work like this, RailsCasts, the Rails Guides, etc that the Rails community so awesome. As I’ve had to learn other languages/frameworks lately I often see how they have attempted to mimic the Rails community and maybe there are a few podcast or screencasts, but nothing that compares to what the Rails Community has.


Carl – July 09, 2009 @ 06:48 PM

I second everything Kevin said (especially the good point part!).

Seriously, Gregg and Jason, you guys do a wonderful job helping me keep with with all the plugins, changing trends, up and coming changes that I don’t know if I would have kept up with Rails if you guys and Ryan Bates hadn’t been there.


Gregg Pollack – July 13, 2009 @ 10:30 AM

Thanks for the kind words guys, it’s very appreciated.


Adam Salter – July 13, 2009 @ 09:44 PM

Thanks for mentioning the Sitemap Generator Plugin as well, Gregg. I was really dissatisfied with any of the other sitemap plugins. Glad you thought it was worth mentioning.


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