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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #029: 04/30/2008

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #029: 04/30/2008

by Jason on Apr 30, 2008

Episode 029. Adam Keys joins us this week because he was in town filming some new videos with us. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Sun.

A note about the audio. The audio this week is horrible because of a certain new microphone which we bought that will remain nameless that we will be returning. We'll announce the two poll results next week since the audio got completely distorted for a few stories including the poll. We'll also try and make the episode extra long to compensate. We're sorry!

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Sun Microsystems, bringing you a complete open source develop-to-deploy environment for Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Learn more at Sun's Ruby Development Center at developers.sun.com/ruby

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In this episode:


  • Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
  • git-me-up
  • Ezra puts Rails on Rack
  • Picolena 0.1.6
  • Feather, a Merb Blogging Engine
  • Bowled over by Ruby Cocoa
  • Slapp: A simple chat wall Merb Tutorial

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Thanks to those of you who came out for my Web 2.0 Expo Talk in SF. You can download my slides here . If you want to share the talk with other people and see another demo of RSpec, I did a video presentation last year entitled How I learned to love testing which covers a lot of the same topics but is an entirely different talk.

I didn’t include my source, but to learn more about RSpec, go read the RSpec Home Page

To learn more about user stories with webrat, check this RSpec Plain Text Stories article

For autotest configuration with growl, check out this post

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Episode 028. We're using a slightly different mic setup this week which is why the audio may sound a little different. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Sun.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Sun Microsystems, bringing you a complete open source develop-to-deploy environment for Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Learn more at Sun's Ruby Development Center at developers.sun.com/ruby

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In this episode:


  • Ruby 1.8.7 pr 1
    Post at Ruby Forum
    Changelog
  • Ruby Hero Awards - Update on the podcast
  • Live Validation
    Livevalidation.com - For the javascript
    Live validation Rails plugin
  • Automatically migrate your database
  • Ruport: Business Reporting for Ruby
  • Seed-Fu
  • Open Source Rails
  • Scout App - Now open to the public
  • Mollom - Spam filtering (Gem)
  • Migrating to Ruby 1.9 by Bruce Williams
  • Lone Star Ruby Conf
  • Git Notes
    Git Textmate Bundle
    Git branch in your bash prompt
  • Deferred requests with erb, ebb, and thin

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Episode 027. In this episode, Gregg and I make wildly inaccurate assumptions about the Rails community based on our poll last week. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Sun.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Sun Microsystems, bringing you a complete open source develop-to-deploy environment for Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Learn more at Sun's Ruby Development Center at developers.sun.com/ruby

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In this episode:


  • Rails Core is now on Github
  • Phusion Passenger Released
    Mod Rails
    Setup mod_rails on Leopard
  • Rubyflow
  • Timezone support in Rails 2.1
  • Libraries in Ruby 1.9
  • Merbivore gets a wiki
  • Mini Template Language Review
  • Thinking Sphinx Reborn
  • Masquerade - Rails based OpenID Server
  • Rails schema browser plugin: proof of concept
  • Gem Updates
    Tmail updated to 1.2.3
    Memcahed 0.9
    RDoc 2.0.0

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Episode 026. I'm back. Thanks a lot to Steve Bristol for sitting in while I was gone and to Gregg for doing the data gathering, recording, and post production. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Viget Labs.

The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored this week by Morph Labs, which recently released a service to simplify the deployment, delivery, and management of Ruby on Rails applications. This fully serviced rockin’ platform offers you instant provisioning, elastic scaling, daily billing, 24/7 monitoring, backups and a lot more than just managed Rails hosting. With a subscription service starting at $1 per day, how can you resist? Visit www.morphexchange.com for complete details.

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In this episode:


  • Rails core is moving to Git
  • JRuby 1.1 Released
  • Slick or Slack?
  • Easy Rails Docs
  • Queso – Sitemap Plugin
  • RubyAMP Textmate Bundle
  • Log Buddy
  • Ruby Facets 2.4.1 released
  • Action Messenger
  • Pastie Packer
  • Simple Pages in Rails
    Josh Susser: Simple Pages in Rails
    Giant Robots Smashing in to other Giant Robots: Static Pages for the Enterprise
    Comatose Plugin

  • Really simple git deployment with Vlad
  • Admin Plugin Reviews
  • Conditional assignment operator

Bonus: Drink Brawndo.

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Episode 025. Jason took another week off so I'm joined once again by Steven Bristol. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow for the edge Rails updates.

The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored this week by Morph Labs, which recently released a service to simplify the deployment, delivery, and management of Ruby on Rails applications. This fully serviced rockin’ platform offers you instant provisioning, elastic scaling, daily billing, 24/7 monitoring, backups and a lot more than just managed Rails hosting. With a subscription service starting at $1 per day, how can you resist? Visit www.morphexchange.com for complete details.

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In this episode:


  • RubyGems Release 1.1.0

    InfoQ interview with Eric Hodel

  • Rubyizumi

  • Ruby Developer Center

  • HotRuby

  • MountainWest Rubyconf 2008

  • Creating a new rails app shouldn't be boring

  • HowTo git and github

  • Gemify just got useful again

  • Sign up forms must die

  • Boost your Rails Controller param[:fu]

  • Sustainable Development in Ruby Part 1

  • Amazon EC2 new features

  • Living on the Edge

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RailsEnvy team switching to Java

by Jason on Apr 01, 2008

It is with a heavy heart I am announcing that, after much deliberation, we've decided to abandon RailsEnvy.com because we can no longer live the lie. Effective today, we've made the switch completely to Java. We're tired of Rails scaling issues.

The Ruby/Rails community has been great and very supportive. We will miss you all equally, but some more than others.

There is better swag available at Java conferences than at Ruby conferences. Oh, and you know that JRuby thing? Well guess what it runs on. Right, that's Java.

We can be reached at javaenvy.com if you have any questions or comments.

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