Time to upgrade to Ruby 1.9, but are you ready? Check out David Black's Ruby 1.9 Envycast for everything you need to know.

Episode 035. Living on the Edge is back this week thanks to Chu Yeow. Also this week I put together an out-takes reel (which you can find at the bottom of this post). These are a few items that got cut from the original podcast, because... well.. they weren't appropriate. You'll want to listen to the podcast before you listen to the out-takes, or they may not make any sense.

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In this episode:
  • Ruby Security Vulnerabilities

  • RubyGems 1.2.0

  • Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What's New

  • All the Jours from Dr. Nic

  • New RubyStack Released

  • Ruby Community Announcements

  • New Rails-doc.org website

  • Rails Inside

  • Rails 2.1 Gotchas

  • 15 Questions to ask during a Ruby Interview

  • Using jQuery with Rails

  • awesome_fields plugin

  • Splunk your log files

  • Upload Progress w/Apache and Passenger

  • Ruby conferences and tracks

  • Living on the Edge part 1

  • Rails Envy Podcast 35 Out-takes


In case you don't get the Yao joke in the beginning here's a link to the Yao Visa commercial.

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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #034

by Jason on Jun 19, 2008

Episode 034. I hope no one freaked out about the podcast being late like I did that time my girlfriend was late.

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In this episode:
  • Capistrano 2.4.0

  • Gem Doc Shortcuts

  • Phusion Passenger 2.0 RC1

  • Ruby Enterprise Edition - Tada!

  • MagLev talk at Railsconf

  • Bind DLZ on Rails

  • Rails 2.1 with better caching

  • Rails based JSON-P

  • Google AJAX Libraries
    Google AJAX Libraries API - blog post by Google
    Using Google Ajax Libraries API with Ruby on Rails

  • Recovering lost commits with git

  • Waiting for a Factory Girl

  • acts_as_taggable_on

  • Writing Macros in RSpec

  • EngineYard Express

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Episode 033. Jason is finally back this week, and we've got plenty of stories to cover! Also, we are now looking for work. If you are looking for some customized Rails training for your team, need someone to look over your code (Code Review), or want to pair program for a day, definitely drop us a line.

Jason's Note: Thank you to everyone who emailed me while I was gone. I'm still going through all of that email but will get back to everyone. Also, I would like to apologize in advance for getting a song stuck in everyone's head. I'm sorry. But I'm also not sorry.

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In this episode:
  • Ruby 1.8.7

  • JRuby 1.1.2

  • MagLev
    MagLev - Official site (no info)
    Chad Fowler on MagLev
    Obie Fernandez on MagLev
  • Coding Font Roundup

  • Guide to Mashing Up Remote DBs / Screen scraping

  • Composite Primary Keys

  • Lockdown Gem

  • Classy Inheritance

  • Fu-Fu: Profanity Filter

  • Improving BlueCloth

  • Fuzed and EC2

  • Ruby EventMachine

  • Deferred Requests with Merb, Ebb, and Thin

  • Cry: Parse Trees

  • 28 mod_rails resources

  • Converting and Displaying Videos in Rails

  • Mysql over SSL to ActiveRecord

  • Railsfriend

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MVC Videos

by gregg on Jun 03, 2008

During Railsconf 2008 last weekend we played the following Public Service Announcements before each of the keynotes. Thanks to Adam Keys from FiveRuns for playing the View, film production by Jason Hawkins and original music by Laura Balch.

MVC #1 - Controller Obesity - 6 - MVC #1 - Controller Obesity

MVC #1 - Controller Obesity - 6 - MVC #1 - Controller Obesity


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MVC #2 - The Importance of Tests


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MVC #3 - Keeping Views Stupid


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MVC #4 - Staying RESTful


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Also, here is the MVC Song in mp3 format if you just can't get it out of your head. Maybe use it for a ring tone or every time you teach MVC to someone in a presentation, hehe.

Feel free to embed these videos. If you want to download these videos for use elsewhere, you can go to the vimeo page for the video you want to download, login to vimeo, and you should see a download link in the bottom right.

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Railsconf Videos

by gregg on Jun 02, 2008

Miss Railsconf this year? Thankfully I captured it here in a 36 minute video for you, free of charge. Just hit the play button and let the information flow directly into your brain. No podcast this week, enjoy the videos.

I also uploaded each of these clips separately, so feel free to re-post and embed to your hearts extent. The new MVC videos we premiered at the conference will be posted Tuesday morning, right here, so stay tuned!

Railsconf in 36 minutes from Gregg Pollack on Vimeo.

Below you'll find all the same clips in the video, but separated. You know, so if you really dig a certain clip you can embed it on your blog or what not.

  • Justin Gehtland & Aaron Bedra giving summaries of their talks
  • Amy Hoy giving a small rant
  • Matt Wood talking about the human genome project using Rails
  • Obie Fernandez talking about bad rails code
  • *Micah Martin summarizing what he hates about web apps
  • Podcasters & Screencasters Gregg Pollack, Ryan Bates, Christopher Haupt , Michael Slater, Geoffrey Grosenbach, and Mike Clark
  • Jeremy Kemper right after announcing Rails 2.1
  • Chu Yeow from Living on the Edge
  • Michael Koziarski talking about benchmarking rails
  • David Heinemeier Hansson summarizing his keynote
  • Bruce Williams talking about the big rewrite
  • Ninh Bui talking about phusion passenger
  • Jim Weirich talking about modeling systems
  • David Chelimsky talking about RSpec stories
  • Charles Nutter talking about JRuby
  • Dave Fayram & Tom Preston-Werner talking about Fuzed
  • Chad Fowler talking about nasty people and Rubyconf 2008
  • Josh Susser talking about the test framework dance-off
  • *Evan Phoenix talking about Rubinius and git jour

* Not seen in the 36 minute version, because I put it together very late at night. Sorry!

Heh.. doing the whole video thing turned out a lot better then I could have expected. Maybe someone might be interested in hiring me to do video? You know, like Duncan Davidson does photography? Hey, I can dream, right? Oh, and if you're looking for additional Railsconf videos check out these guys here.

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