Rails Envy

Episode 039. This podcast was done live and in Portland, OR at OSCON, even though we don't talk about it at all. I love everyone.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Five Runs. FiveRuns provides Rails developers with a full stack of tools that helps them install, deploy, and maintain their web applications. Check them out at FiveRuns.com.

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In this episode:

• JRuby 1.1.3
• Phusion passenger 2.0.2
• Mack Framework 0.6.0
• Comparing Ultrasphinx and ThinkingSphinx
• Mulling over Rails Full Text Search Options
• Running Applications in IronRuby
• Resurrecting libxml-ruby
• Ruby programming is an Art
• Grab inbound search terms in Rails
• Mobile_fu
• EditorKicker
• The complete guide to setting up Starling and Workling
• Cookie handling in multi-domain applications in Ruby on Rails
• Centostrano 0.1 - deprec 2
• Autumn IRC Bot
• jQuery Startup (with Rails)
• timeago jQuery plugin
• Proto.Menu - Right click for prototype
• Rockstar Memcaching
• New on Edge Rails - Nested Model Mass Assignment
• Ruby on Rails l18n core api
• PSA
• Using SWFUpload with Rails

Oh yeah, we were going to talk about is_ratable but didn't because there wasn't much to say. Check it out if you need a rating plugin.

Episode 038. If you like the song at the end let us know and we'll post it tomorrow as a separate download. I'm not going to say any more. You'll have to listen all the way through to understand.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• BackgroundRB 1.0.4
• Rails Summit Brazil
• DataFabric Gem
• Introducing Functor
• RandExp Gem
• Mod_Rails Hosting Two Months on
• Browsing Git Repositories on RubyForge
• Supercharged Ruby-Git
• DRYing up Rails Controllers: Polymorphic and Super Controllers
• Testing is Overrated
• Adding Google Maps to Rails
• Camptweet
• Stop Exception Notifications With The ZombieShotgun
• iPhone 3g contest for Rails Documentation Patches
• Three database Rails 2.1 Bugs

Episode 037. This week's podcast delay brought to you by a certain unnamed cable company. They're [Redacted]-tastic!

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• Ruby news from RubyKaigi 2008

• How to get a Ruby Job

• Insoshi: Rails 2.1 Case Study

• Testing IPhone Apps with Ruby

• Clone Pastie with Sinatra & DataMapper 0.9

• Find tests more easily in your Rails test.log

• Global Setup In RSpec or How To Add Logging For Specs

• Rolling a JRuby desktop application

• The Road to Hell is Paved with Caching

• Using Ruby for IMAP with Gmail

• Pretty Blocks in Rails Views

• Speed up slow Rails development in Vista

• Sexy Forms for Merb

• Railscamp 08

• Public Service Announcement: Don't Forget to Clear Out Your Rails Session Data

Episode 036. We're trying something new with the first ever Rails Envy public service announcement. Well, new if you don't count the PSA videos we just put out.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

Update: Call Us! We're trying out voicemail. We may play it on the podcast next week. Call us at 407 409-8440.

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In this episode:

• Rails Scaling to 1 Billion Views Per month

• Faster RubyGem Deploys

• Passenger Pref Pane for OSX

• Phusion Passenger 2.0.1

• ShoeFests with Why the Lucky Stiff

• Merb Worker Background Tasks

• Holler

• Shout

• Make your own IM bot in Ruby
  Make your own IM bot in Ruby, and interface it with your Rails app
  Jabber Bot

• Subdomain Fu

• Git remote branches

• Add Gotchas to Rails-Doc

• Railsconf, maybe not Vegas

• DB2 Support for Rails 2.1

• State Machine in Rails core

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.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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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.

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

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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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

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.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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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

Episode 032. Why bother reading RSS feeds when you can just listen to the podcast to get your fill of the most interesting Ruby and Rails news? This week staring Steven Bristol, Elvis Presley, and Fergie. Does it get any better then that?

If you're going to be at Railsconf next week, don't forget about the Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony, taking place Friday, 7:40 PM right before DHH's Keynote. Also if you're as passionate about podcasting as we are, come join us at the Podcast Meetup after DHH's keynote at 9 PM.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• Passenger on Dreamhost

• Rails on Rubinius

• Railscasts Rails Tips Contest

• Load Balancing & QoS with HAProxy

• Thor's Hammer

• Palmist

• Merb Unity

• Merb Exceptions

• Can Has Auth

• The Narcissism of Small Code Differences

• FiveRuns Manage 2.05

• Dynamically Created Methods in Ruby

• Javascript auto include rails plugin

• Oracle Enhanced Adapter

• Living on the Edge

Episode 031. Steven Bristol is back this week and although the podcast is full of music, we don't actually sing. Seriously, I have no idea how all that music got in there.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• JRuby Rack

• DBSlayer with ActiveRecord Adapter

• WS-Deathstar SOAP walkthrough

• Business Natural Languages Video

• Rails iui plugin

• Cross Site Reference Forgery

• MonkeyBars

• Endless Page Plugin

• Ruby Hoedown

• Ruby Kaigi

• Reading a GPS with Ruby

• Heroku Gets 3 Million

• Notes from Advanced Rails Studio

• Poor Mans CDN

• Community Engine

• Living on the Edge

Episode 030. Steven Bristol steps in for Jason this week for this information packed episode. Last week some of our stories got screwed up by the microphone we were using, so this week we're back with extra ruby flavor.

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 Docs & Rails 2.1 Imminent

• Capistrano 2.3.0

• Webistrano 1.3

• Metric Fu

• Wikipedia API Ruby Wrapper

• Elastic Server On Demand from Cohesive FT

• Relic RPM by New Relic

• RailsMachine new website

• Rails Kits

• Lovd By Less

• Block Level Helpers in Rails

• TextMate Syntax Highlighting

• Hobofields plugin

• Newbish Ruby on Rails Link Library

• Building a Social Network Site in Rails

• Extracting EXIF Data

• GitHub RubyGems

• A Look at Ruby Debuggers

• Twitter isn't ditching Rails

• Can Rails Scale? Absolutely!

• Living on the Edge