Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #072: 03/25/2009 - archives 2019 3

Episode 72.This week we're back with improved audio quality on both sides of the microphone, and all of the great Ruby and Rails news from this week.

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The Rails Envy podcast is also 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. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Hashrocket. Hashrocket is an expert consultancy group that uses best-of-breed technologies like Ruby on Rails to deliver the highest quality software in the least amount of time.

• Phusion Passenger 2.1.2 Final
• JRuby 1.2.0 Released
• HPricot 0.7
• New Relic Notify
• 7 Minute Abs
• Moonshine - deployment and configuration done right
• Railscasts
• ASCIIcasts
• Google Summer of Code
• MountainWest RubyConf Videos Up!
• Rails is Officially not in the Ghetto
• Watir Podcast
• You've got Rails! - Template Creator
• Hancock-Client : Sinatra Middleware
• validates_timeliness plugin
• Using default_scope to recreate acts_as_paranoid
• TwitterAuth: For Near-Instant Twitter Apps
• Using cucumber for acceptance testing

Episode 71. TMI Edition.

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The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Hashrocket. Hashrocket is an expert consultancy group that uses best-of-breed technologies like Ruby on Rails to deliver the highest quality software in the least amount of time.

The Rails Envy podcast is also 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. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

• Riding Rails: Rails 2.3: Templates, Engines, Rack, Metal, much more!
• MacRuby
• the Rubyist
• Rails Prescriptions
• Red Artisan: Comma, CSV for all
• How to Get A Job at a Top Ruby Shop
• Effluxion - JSON Meets Tokyo Cabinet (and More!): CloudKit 0.11.0 Released
• M4DBI - Models (and more) for DBI
• faithfulgeek's naked_rack at master - GitHub
• purzelrakete's mini at master - GitHub
• Twibot: A microframework for Twitter bots in Ruby / Ruby - cjohansen.no
• Rails Searchable API Doc
• Aissac Blog » Member Extension
• Radiant CMS - Extension Registry
• Nodeta » Blog Archive » Stopping your Rails application with Phusion Passenger
• RailsCamp.au 5 - May 15-18th 2008
• Locos X Rails
• Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise

Episode 70. I was going to try and copy Gregg from last week but my dog can't talk yet to do the introduction. Darn obedience classes. Obie Fernandez from Hashrocket co-hosts this week and we have a blast. I hope you all enjoy the show and am sorry for the delay. But it's a good one, I promise!

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The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Hashrocket. Hashrocket is an expert consultancy group that uses best-of-breed technologies like Ruby on Rails to deliver the highest quality software in the least amount of time.

The Rails Envy podcast is also 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. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

• Riding Rails: Rails 2.3 RC2: Final stop before release
• Ruby on Rails 2.3 Release Notes
• Coffee Powered » Powerful, easy, DRY, multi-format REST APIs: Part 2
• The Merbist » Blog Archive » Merb 1.1 roadmap | Merb & Rails3 news - consulting - training
• Heroku | How it Works
• Is anyone using ESI with a lot of traffic? - Twitter's Varnish config.
• Lark's presentation on Getting Things Done
• How-To Setup a Linux Server for Ruby on Rails - with Phusion Passenger and GitHub - Hack'd
• ANN: Rake 0.8.4 Released
• Dusting off Vlad - Polishing Ruby
• vlad version 1.3.0 has been released! - Polishing Ruby
• state_machine: One machine to rule them all? | PluginAWeek
• Sinatra 0.9.1 released! - sinatrarb | Google Groups
• Rack::Test released: Simply test any Rack-compatible app — Bryan Helmkamp
• ZenTest version 4.0.0 has been released! - Polishing Ruby
• Chocolate Meat Mephisto Theme - The EZPZ Way
• Managing Amazon EC2 with your iPhone - The Devver Blog
• winton's ubistrano at master - GitHub
• Shoulda 2.10: time for a little love for ActionController — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
• Step right up, win a $1,295 prize — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
• Aissac Blog » Ultrasphinx search extension
• Aissac's radiant-ultrasphinx-search-extension at master - GitHub
• roberto's intergalactic_flash at master - GitHub
• Obie's BizConf

Over the next few months Jason and I are going to be speaking at a few events, and if you are attending or live in the area we’d love to meet you.

SXSW > March 13-17

Location: Austin, TX

First up is SXSW where I’ll be there (sans Jason) giving a talk on How not to FAIL at Web Services where I’ll be taking a look at a few ugly Web Services from big name companies like Flickr and Amazon, and show you how they failed. I’ll be speaking the RESTful gospel, so if you fully get REST (as many Rails developers do), feel free to come to watch the incredible amount of FAIL I’ll be doling out.

Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise > March 26-27

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Secondly Jason and I will be doing a talk on Innovation in Ruby at ETE. Don’t worry, this will be entirely new content if you’ve already seen us do an innovation talk. Doing the Rails Envy podcast we see a great deal of useful code & libraries coming out of the Ruby & Rails community, and in this talk we’ll take a closer look at 20 new innovations.

JAX 09 > April 20-24

Location: Mainz, Germany

Next up I’ll be taking a trip back to Germany to speak at JAX 09, one of Germany’s biggest Tech events. There I’ll be helping out with the Ruby on Rails day hosted by Michael Johann. I’ll be talking on Innovation in Rails and Rails 3.

Railsconf 2009 > May 4-8

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Jason and I will both be at Railsconf this year, and we’re really looking forward to it. There our talk is Rails: A Year of Innovation. Again, don’t worry if you’ve seen us talk about Rails Innovation before, this will be all new content. We’ll walk through 20 new tools you might want to be using on your current and future projects.

And that’s about it

That’s all we have scheduled for the next 3 months. Few conference related things you might want to know about:

• If your company is in one of these Cities (or nearby) and you’d like to do an in person code review, training, or pair programming session while we’re in the area, feel free to contact us.
• If your company wants to do some audio or video screencasting/podcasting and you’d like a hand, we can certainly assist with that as well.
• We’re always looking for sponsors. Not just for our podcast, but also for the numerous conference videos I’ve produced. These conference videos have averaged around 40,000 views each, and provide an interesting opportunity to advertise to a specific demographic (whoever is interested in a conference). Contact Us if you want to hear more details.

P.S. If you think I travel a lot, check out Neal Ford’s conference schedule. He’s a great speaker, but that man must hate airports!

The next two videos of the Scaling Rails screencasts are now out. In these episodes you’ll see two interviews, learn about Rails deployment, and browse through the advanced features of New Relic RPM.

These are the last two videos I produced for the series, and I know I missed a few topics. So if you’d like to see more, please take a moment and fill out this feedback form.

Thanks for watching!

Episode 069. This week Steven Bristol co-hosts with me, and my son Ender introduces the show (he's 2 1/2).

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The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Hashrocket. Hashrocket is an expert consultancy group that uses best-of-breed technologies like Ruby on Rails to deliver the highest quality software in the least amount of time.

The Rails Envy podcast is also 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. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

• JRuby 1.2.0 RC1 Released

• Phusion Passenger 2.1.1 (beta) Released

• Net::SSH, Capistrano, and Saying Goodbye

• APIDock in Textmate

• Spike Revisited

• How to speed up gem installs 10x

• Shoulda Looked at it Sooner

• Atomlog - Rails log to Atom Feed

• Rails 2.3 Nested Object Forms: Not crazy about em

• CSS Naked Day Plugin

• Rails Magazine - Issue #1

• ActiveRecord Optimization with Scrooge

• Rails Integration Testing with Integrity

• Ploymaps Rails Plugin

• adva CMS - cutting edge rails cms platform

• Why you should deploy your next app on Ruby 1.9

• rack-flash - Flash messages for Rack

• Ruby Best Practices - Sample Chapter

• Rails Underground 09

• The Hampton and Steve show

• Ruby Hero Awards

Case you're wondering where those "Fix it!" quotes were from, it was from a Saturday night live sketch. See here (and skip to the 4:31 mark) and here.

The song from the end of the show is Generals And Majors (2001 Digital Remaster)

Just some quick shameless self promotion:

I did a talk at QCon a while back on the different Ruby Virtual Machines. You can check out the presentation the InfoQ web site: Ruby VMs: A Comparison. If you don't want to watch the whole thing and hear all my "umms" here's a spoiler: JRuby wins. Fatality.

The first issue of Rails Magazine is out also! There's an article in there from yours truly on receiving email with Rails. There's also a bunch of other top notch content. Go check it out. They're also looking for content for the next issue so if you have something you'd like to contribute definitely drop them a line.