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

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

The Rails Envy podcast is 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. Check them out at NewRelic.com.

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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.

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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• 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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Episode 041. Short and sweet this week. Like us.

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In this episode:

• Hyperactive Resource
• Testing named_scope with Shoulda
• Hoptoad
• It's an HTTParty and Everyone is invited
• Rails:Initial Release 0.1
• EhCache for JRuby
• Config Toolkit:configtoolkit 2.2.0 Released
• PeepCode Rails on Facebook PDF
• Integrating Design Drafts into your Rails app
• openSteam 0.9.1 released
• Get your site indexed by search engines
• Public Service Announcement: Initializers
• Free tickets to Ruby Hoedown
• Hampton Catlin's Ruby Survey
• Introducing ActivePresenter
• Phusion Passenger and FiveRuns Manage

Episode 040. Delayed because of my move. Apologies all around. Thanks for your patience!

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In this episode:

• Redcloth 4.0.1 Released
• WSO2 Web Services Framework for Ruby - 1.1.0
• Merb road to 1.0
• Upcoming books on Ruby & Rails
• DocBox
• ActiveRecord Full Text Search Using Xapian
• Kawaii - A web-based utility like script/console
• IronRuby at Oscon
• Converting a subversion repo to Git
• PSA: Don't forget about RubyForge
• Radiant CMS:Radiant 0.6.8 "Incise" Released
• FiveRuns Manage adds Rails app Health Dashboard
• Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails
• Deploying a Drupal Site with Capistrano 2
• Nginx + HaProxy gotcha
• Mod_rails and full page caching with a custom cache location
• YUI Combo Handler Service

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