Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #016: 1/30/2008 - archives 2018 1

Episode 16. Gregg and I rant at the end of the podcast this week as well as make wild and false accusations about gems. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.

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In this episode:

• Thin Cheesecake Release

• ActiveCouch

• SQS & S3 Image uploading and resizing

• The Best Rails Ticket Ever

• Encrypted Cookie Store

• EngineYard Hires Employee for mod_rubinius

• AR-extensions

• Prototype 1.6 Cheatsheet

• Ruport Book

• RailsConf 07 Keynote Videos Posted

• Rubular

• Jim Weirich writes Lisp interpreter in Ruby

• Ruby Reddit

• Living on the Edge

Episode 15. We've tried to cut down the length of the podcast this week since last week we went a bit overboard. Let us know what you think. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.

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In this episode:

• RSpec 1.1.2 and ZenTest 3.8.0
  David Chelimsky: RSpec-1.1.2 and ZenTest-3.8.0 8
  Mike Subelsky: Autotest with verbose flag on

• ActiveResource and YouTube

• Relax with your Hacks

• Talking Style Tips from Natural Language

• Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin

• Google Groups: spec-converter 0.0.3 Released Options
  Relevance: simple_services plugin

• Scout

• Living on the Edge

Episode 14. In this episode, you could create a drinking game based on how many times I say that Rails can't scale. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.

The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored by Corpedia. Corpedia provides ethics and compliance solutions to major corporations. Corpedia is proud to support the Rails community in Phoenix Arizona and is currently hiring Ruby on Rails developers.
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In this episode:

• Shared hosting sentiment
  DreamHost: How Ruby on Rails could be much better
  DHH: The deal with shared hosts
  Peter Cooper: No True "mod_ruby" Is Damaging Ruby's Viability On The Web

• Attribute_Fu

• Merbful Authentication

• Merb 0.5.0 and Roadmap

• Shoes Meets Merb

• Assert_efficient_sql

• Query Reviewer plugin

• Facebook App Tutorial

• RSpec User Stories

• Jay Fields: Changing application.rb to application_controller.rb

• Engine Yard takes $3.5 million in VC money

• Managing High Perfomance Rails App Video

• How 7 Mongrels Handled a 550k Pageview digging

• Starling Released

• The Skinny on JQuery

• Living on the Edge with Chu Yeow

The song in the background during the application.rb skit was made by Intelect, and gotten from the Podsafe Music Network.

Episode 13. In this episode we try and solve a mystery. If you need to get in touch with us regarding the podcast or would like to let us know about some news, send an email to podcast at railsenvy dot com and Gregg or I will get back to you. A big thank you to Chu Yeow for both being awesome and getting us the latest updates to edge rails.

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In this episode:

• Freezing your Rails Application

• Typo 5

• Ruby on Rails Security

• Autotesting Javascript in Rails

• SkyNet

• Ruby with Facebook Thrift

• Thin

• Why Rubunius Matters

• Programming without Ifs

• Halcyon

• RailsEnvy Presentations
  Unobtrusive Javascript
  The Future of Web Services

• Rails for PHP Developers

• Advanced Rails Recipes – second beta

• Living on the Edge

At the Orlando Ruby Users Group last month, I gave a talk on unobtrusive javascript. It gives a big picture overview of why you would want to code your javascript unobtrusively. If you haven't been exposed to unobtrusive javascript principles yet or would like to learn more, give it a or watch right here.

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Some topics covered in the video:

• A bit of history and how we got here.
• Semantic Markup
• Obtrusive Examples
• Benefits of coding unobtrusively
• Examples, specifically to Rails
• Guidelines and assumptions you should make when coding javascript
• Graceful degredation
• Namespacing

Special thanks to Gregg for editing the video. Also, if the above description isn't enough to make you watch the video, how about this screencap:

Episode 12. Hope you all had a great new years and holiday season. This episode we're premiering a new weekly feature we call Living on the Edge, where we report the latest developments on Rails trunk. Big thanks to Chu Yeow, a core contributer himself, for getting us this information.

Update: Attached the javascript graphic.

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In this episode:

• Rails 2.0.2

• Ruby 1.9

• Merb to production

• Testing Rake tasks in RSpec

• Prototype & Scriptaculous Book

• Beanstalk Messaging Queue

• RubyGems 1.0.0

• ZenTest | Testing with MultiRuby

• Ruby Expectation Gem | Testing Inline

• Learning Rails Podcast

• 30 Similarities between PHP & Ruby

• Instant Rails 2.0 Released

• RMagick 2.0.0

• JTestR

• Living on the Edge by Chu Yeow