Rails Envy

Episode 045. Have fun at RailsConf Europe to all who are attending and if you're going to the Lone Star Ruby Conf, we'll see you there!

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• Mack Framework 0.7.0
• Merb 0.9.5
• Halcyon 0.5.3
• Ruby Security Quick Guide
• Neverblock Mysql Support
• Capistrano 2.5.0
• Continuous Integration - in a Box
• JRuby Server - Zero to Production
• Typo 5.1.3 is out
• Typo on Glassfish
• Introducing RR, Test Doube (or mock) framework
• Rails Summit Latin America
• Merb Camp
• daemon_controller: a library for robust daemon management
• On the Edge: Rescue from dispatching
• Demo of Rails 2.2 interationalization
• Spree Open Source Shopping Cart

Episode 044. We've decided to stop living the lie and are just letting OS X system speech say all names for us from now on.

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• Yahoo's BOSS Web Service - Bossman Gem
• Ruby Hoedown Videos
• Ruby 1.9 Sandbox on Leopard
• Amazon Elastic Block Store
• JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on Glassfish
• Neverblock and Neverblog PostGres w/ ActiveRecord
• whatlanguage gem
• Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby
• Agile Project Management Tools
• RSpec: It should behaive like
• Drying up your CRUD controller RSpecs
• Telling a good story - RSpec Stories
• EnvyCasts - Advanced ActiveRecord Screencast
• Interview with DHH
• Rails has Continuous Integration
• How to fix your Rails Helpers

As you may already be aware, Jason and I have been working on our own paid Screencasting website, called Envycasts.

We’re releasing the website into the wild today, with our first envycast Advanced ActiveRecord. Definitely check out the website and view the flash preview of this first screencast.

How are we different then the other screencasters?

Well, the biggest difference is that we put together a green screen. So basically you see us in front of the code, instead of our voices. This makes for a more engaging, and I think entertaining experience, but I’ll let you be the judge.

Both Jason and I owe big props to the other big screencasters in the Ruby / Rails world, Railscasts, Peepcode, Pragmatic Screencasts, the Learning Rails Podcast/Screencast, amongst others. If it wasn’t for these guys, I doubt we’d have done a website like Envycasts.

If you’ve enjoyed the content we’ve put out here on Rails Envy, even if you don’t buy the screencast, maybe consider doing us a favor and help us promote the website (feel free to steal the images here). We love producing media for the community, and admittedly it isn’t as profitable as just coding, so hopefully with your help we can keep on doing what we do.

Episode 043. What's an Australian Rails developer's worst nightmare? Listen to the podcast all the way to the end to find out.

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• What thread-safe Rails means
• Parsing XML with Ruby
• Conditional Get Support
• MapReduce with inspiration from functional programming
• Rails-doc changes to APIdock.com
• ActiveRecord: Using namespaced Models
• MonetDB adapter for ActiveRecord
• Rails Plugin: dynamically_tags
• Sam Ruby's Ruby 1.9 Slides
• Ruby VM Shootout
• Upcoming Ruby/Rails Workshops:
  
  • Collective Idea is holding a Ruby on Rails training course on August 25-28 in Holland, Michigan for $1495.
  • Satish Talim recently announced the 7th free online ruby programming class. You can register now, and the class starts Saturday, September 6th.
  • October 4th in Austin Texas the Softies on Rails guys are doing a day long REST with Rails workshop. $295 bucks for that.
  • October 14th in Boston, Ma the guys from Thoughtbot are putting together an Advanced Ruby on Rails workshop for $495.
  • The Pragmatic Studio has a Rails studio September 15-17 for $1500, and an Advanced Rails studio November 17-19 for $1700.
• TextMate plugin project plus
• SmartMonth Plugin

Episode 042. I apologize for the delays.

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• Enumerating Enumerable
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ruby
• Building Static Web Sites with Webby
• Quickly Switch Between Rails Versions
• Faster From XML
• Dizzy CheatSheets
• ViewGem
• Yahoo! Music Battle of the APIs
• Plugin: Localized_dates
• Localizing Rails
• Prawn 0.1.0: Fast, Nimble PDF Generation in Pure Ruby
• Reliable Ruby timeouts with SystemTimer
• UW Extension Ruby Classes
• OEmbed Rails plugin
• Document matching in Ruby
• Git deployment workflow

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Thanks!

Jason and I hit up the Ruby Hoedown last weekend and I did my video bit, putting together a montage of the proceedings for those who didn’t make it:

Ruby Hoedown in 10 minutes

You can also click one of the following links if you’re interested in seeing one particular person, but I highly recommend just watching the whole thing, it’s only 10 minutes for heaven sake!

Bryan Liles, Chris Wanstrath, David Black, Gregg Pollack, Jason Seifer, Jeremy McAnally, Jim Remsik, Jim Weirich, Joe O’Brien, Obie Fernandez, Rein Henrichs, Rick Bradley, Robert Dempsey, Yehuda Katz, and Yossef Mendelssohn

Anyone out there interested in having me do this for their conference/event? hehe… Hey, I can dream right? Talking about professional video, the Confreaks guys were there, so I suspect we’ll see full video coverage of the conference in a couple of days. When they do post them I’ll link up their videos as well.