Episode 89. This is the last Rails Envy podcast by Nathaniel Bibler and I. You'll just have to listen to the podcast for more details, which I hope you were planning on anyways. FYI, Jason Seifer may be doing another cast after this, so it may not be the official last one, just the last one for Nathan and I.
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Episode 87. We bring you the latest news in the Ruby and Rails world. By we I mean I. The greatly delayed podcast 85 will be out in the next couple of days and features a couple awesome surprise co-hosts.
Runway is a GTD-style action management web application made by geeks for geeks. Created by the folks at Cogent, try a free demo at http://www.runwayapp.com.
NewRelic not only provides rails performance monitoring with RPM, but they also produce Rails Lab, a website dedicated to advice on tuning and optimizing Rails apps.
Episode 86. We bring you the latest news in the Ruby and Rails world. This week features co-host Nathan Bibler, tequila, a singing robot, and a Hoedown. What more could you ask for?
Runway is a GTD-style action management web application made by geeks for geeks. Created by the folks at Cogent, try a free demo at http://www.runwayapp.com.
NewRelic not only provides rails performance monitoring with RPM, but they also produce Rails Lab, a website dedicated to advice on tuning and optimizing Rails apps.
Runway is a GTD-style action management web application made by geeks for geeks. Created by the folks at Cogent, try a free demo at http://www.runwayapp.com.
NewRelic not only provides rails performance monitoring with RPM, but they also produce Rails Lab, a website dedicated to advice on tuning and optimizing Rails apps.
Episode 83. It's a double feature this week, folks! This week, Obie Fernandez from Hashrocket (check out that snazzy new site) joins me as a co-host. This is both the longest Rails Envy podcast ever and the most bleeped out. It's also full of the usual great Ruby and Rails news and gems.
Runway is a GTD-style action management web application made by geeks for geeks. Created by the folks at Cogent, try a free demo at http://www.runwayapp.com.
NewRelic not only provides rails performance monitoring with RPM, but they also produce Rails Lab, a website dedicated to advice on tuning and optimizing Rails apps.
Also mentioned in this episode is BizConf. Gregg will be speaking and it looks like a great event. Check it out and listen to the podcast for more info.
Episode 81. We're joined this week by the awesome Corey Haines. This podcast is chock full of news and awkwardness. We do apologize for the sound quality this episode -- my one mic had a bit of difficulty picking up 3 people and keeping the levels consistent. Hope you like it!
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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.
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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.
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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.
Episode 78. Another great episode of Ruby/Rails News. FYI, sorry the audio quality is a little off this week, but hopefully we'll be back up to par next week.
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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.
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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.
Episode 73. is subtitled "Somewhere over the Rainbow", but you'll have to listen to find out why. This episode Jason and I are in the same room! As you might expect, much hilarity ensues.
The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Integrum. Integrum is a team of dedicated Rails developers who emphasize business value, speed to market, and open communitcation to build remarkable Rails applications. They build software that you've been told is impossible.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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. Debuting this week is the Rails Lab which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app. Check it out at RailsLab.NewRelic.com.
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. Debuting this week is the Rails Lab which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app. Check it out at RailsLab.NewRelic.com.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
The Rails Envy Podcast is also brought to you this week by Pragmatic Screencasts. Learn Ruby, Rails, Erlang, and iPhone development by shoulder-surfing with an expert. Pragmatic Screencasts is a collection of video tutorials to help you stay on top of your game. New topics include Mastering Rails Forms and Objective-C for only $5 per episode. Check 'em out at pragmatic.tv
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Check out PeepCode as well, from our cohost this week Geoffrey Grosenbach. PeepCode Screencasts are a high-intensity way to learn Ruby on Rails website development.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by Cloudspace. Cloudspace specializes in designing & building web applications using agile software development in Ruby on Rails and PHP/MySQL frameworks. If you're looking for a Rails gig or someone to help with a Rails project, definitely drop them a line.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Episode 057.Steven Bristol steps in for Jason this week and does a great deal of smack talk along with finally coming out of the closet (As a JRubyist). Find out what took him so long!
The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by Cloudspace. Cloudspace specializes in designing & building web applications using agile software development in Ruby on Rails and PHP/MySQL frameworks. If you're looking for a Rails gig or someone to help with a Rails project, definitely drop them a line.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by Cloudspace. Cloudspace specializes in designing & building web applications using agile software development in Ruby on Rails and PHP/MySQL frameworks. If you're looking for a Rails gig or someone to help with a Rails project, definitely drop them a line.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Run Code Run by Relevance, Inc. Run code run is continuous integration done right. With Run code run you get constant feedback on the health of your project and zero config setup with github integration.
The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by Cloudspace. Cloudspace specializes in designing & building web applications using agile software development in Ruby on Rails and PHP/MySQL frameworks.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by 8th Light who are the developers of Limelight, a rich client GUI framework which allows you to build desktop applications across any platform using JRuby. Check out their screen cast showing how to build a calculator in 10 minutes.
The Rails Envy podcast is also brought to you this week by Edge Case. EdgeCase specializes in the "teach you to fish" model of creating an application and training your developers in both how and what gets developed.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Episode 051. Another episode packed with the most interesting news coming out of the Ruby and Rails communities. We're still looking for another sponsor for the podcast, so please email Gregg at RailsEnvy if you have a product or service you'd like to market to Ruby developers. Thanks!
The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Edge Case. EdgeCase specializes in the "teach you to fish" model of creating an application and training your developers in both how and what gets developed. EdgeCase focuses on transparency and agility as well as offers customized training in Test Driven Development, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, and Agile development.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Episode 050. We've officially been doing the Rails Envy Podcast for a year now. Thanks everyone!
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Lastly, we are actively looking for podcast sponsors for the next few weeks, so if you'd like for us to talk about your products or services on the podcast email Gregg at RailsEnvy for additional information.
Episode 049. I have nothing funny or cool to say here. I'm sorry. But hey! How about Apple lifting that iPhone NDA!
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Episode 048. I admit I had a couple of beers before we recorded this week and it's the most offensive podcast ever. Sorry. At least we warned you and bleeped out all the bad words. Well, most of them.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Episode 046. Another week of interesting news from the Ruby and Ruby on Rails world. If you would like to see written summary of Rails parts of this episode, Gregg cross posted the content to This Week On Rails on the official Rails blog.
The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Rails Kits. Rails Kits provides ready made and tested Rails code for you to use in your projects.. Check them out at RailsKits.com.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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!
The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by Rails Kits. Rails Kits provides ready made and tested Rails code for you to use in your projects.. Check them out at RailsKits.com.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
Episode 040. Delayed because of my move. Apologies all around. Thanks for your patience!
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Episode 029.Adam Keys joins us this week because he was in town filming some new videos with us. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Sun.
A note about the audio. The audio this week is horrible because of a certain new microphone which we bought that will remain nameless that we will be returning. We'll announce the two poll results next week since the audio got completely distorted for a few stories including the poll. We'll also try and make the episode extra long to compensate. We're sorry!
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
Episode 028. We're using a slightly different mic setup this week which is why the audio may sound a little different. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Sun.
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
Episode 027. In this episode, Gregg and I make wildly inaccurate assumptions about the Rails community based on our poll last week. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Sun.
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
Episode 026. I'm back. Thanks a lot to Steve Bristol for sitting in while I was gone and to Gregg for doing the data gathering, recording, and post production. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Viget Labs.
The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored this week by Morph Labs, which recently released a service to simplify the deployment, delivery, and management of Ruby on Rails applications.
This fully serviced rockin’ platform offers you instant provisioning, elastic scaling, daily billing, 24/7 monitoring, backups and a lot more than just managed Rails hosting. With a subscription service starting at $1 per day, how can you resist? Visit www.morphexchange.com for complete details.
Episode 025. Jason took another week off so I'm joined once again by Steven Bristol. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow for the edge Rails updates.
The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored this week by Morph Labs, which recently released a service to simplify the deployment, delivery, and management of Ruby on Rails applications.
This fully serviced rockin’ platform offers you instant provisioning, elastic scaling, daily billing, 24/7 monitoring, backups and a lot more than just managed Rails hosting. With a subscription service starting at $1 per day, how can you resist? Visit www.morphexchange.com for complete details.
Lastly, you may have noticed some beeps separating some of the stories this week. I figured this might make things sound a little less abrupt when we start on the next story, let me know if you have any feedback (like/dislike).
Episode 023. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Viget Labs.
The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored by Viget Labs. Viget is a web consulting & development firm based outside of Washington, DC with another office in Durham. Since 1999 they've been working with start-ups like Squidoo and ODEO. They're hiring Rails developers, so meet them at RailsConf or check them out at viget.com.
Episode 22. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.
The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored by Viget Labs. Viget is a web consulting & development firm based outside of Washington, DC with another office in Durham. Since 1999 they've been working with start-ups like Squidoo and ODEO. They're hiring Rails developers, so meet them at RailsConf or check them out at viget.com.
Episode 20. Info on JRuby, Deploying Rails Applications, Matz' tech talk, the new git bundle for TextMate, some tutorials, a though-provoking post by Jay Fields, and some great information on scaling. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow for the edge Rails updates.
Deploying Rails Applications book complete! The “Deploying Rails Applications” book by Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, and Clinton Begin is now complete. It’s been available as a beta book for a few months now, but this final release includes a chapter on Apache and Nginx scaling, setting up your own XEN installation, and setting up Mysql Master Slave, and Master Master replicated databases.
Google Tech Talk with Matz Google put up a tech talk from Matz on YouTube. Matz explains the different versions of Ruby and goes in to Ruby 1.9 quite a bit. It’s about 50 minutes and he gives some really interesting info out.
Rush, the Ruby Shell
Two weeks ago we talked about Heroku, the web application that allows you to code and deploy rails applications without doing any configuration. Adam Wiggen of the Heroku team just released Rush, a replacement for bash and ssh which uses Ruby syntax.
Farm work to EC2 using processor_pool and Sinatra
Last week Ari Lerner on the CitrusByte blog posted an awesome tutorial about how to offload image processing onto an EC2 cloud with an S3 storage back-end using Sinatra with the processor pool gem.
Rails Messaging Tutorial
If you ever find yourself coding up a web application with a user messaging system, you should definitely check out the Rails Messaging Tutorial by NovaWave Solutions. This tutorial does a good job of getting you started on the right foot with several specifications that aren’t really intuitive from the get go. It’s also a great read if you’re new to rails and you want to read someone else’s code to improve.
Biggest Rails App
Last week we talked about a Rails website that is getting 100 million page views a month. Well, we found one that takes more, and this one isn’t using any page caching. “Friends For Sale” is a facbook application written in Rails, and is currently receiving 300 Million page views/month.
Git Bundle for Textmate
If you’re starting to use git and you already use Textmate you may want to pickup the new and improved Git bundle released last week.
Learn Git 10 Different Ways
While we’re on the topic of Git, Rob Sanheim put up a blog post titled “Learn Git 10 Different Ways” which, contrary to what you might thing, links you to 10 different resources for learning git.
Skinny Request, Fat Backend
Eric Allam, a fellow Orlando Ruby programmer wrote up a really interesting article last week entitled "Skinny Request, Fat Backend." The article explains why it’s important that as rails developers we keep our requests as skinny as possible, because of how rails locks every time a request comes in. By using cache columns, ensuring calls to web services don’t timeout, offloading image manipulation and sending emails, and lastly he gives an example of how to isolate a controller action outside of rails by creating a small Rack app which uses thin.
El Dorado – Community Web Application
You know how PHP has all of those community systems.. with a message board, events, files, and user system? Now Ruby has something similar called “El Dorado” which is perfect if you need to throw together a website to communicate with your friends, or maybe even for your Ruby Users Group.
Gems in Rails
Last week Jay Fields wrote up an interesting article where he brings up the fact that Rails doesn’t really play well with Gems.
Mumble your Tests
If you’re developing in linux and are envious of all us Mac users who use growl for our autotest notifications, over on the Caffinated code blog this week you’ll find a script that will allow you to patch Mumbles to do the same thing.
Rails Undo Redo
There’s an easy way to implement undo and redo in your rails app thanks to Pascal on the Nano Rails blog. Pascal recently released the Rails Undo Redo plugin, which allows you to give exactly this type of functionality to your models and controllers.
Radiator: Build status on your Beta Brite
The guys over on the Something Nimble blog were doing a project where they needed to see progress of their continuous build status, like whether it succeeded or failed. They figured out how to hook up the results of the build to show on a giant LED and then released the application they use to interface with it called Radiator.
YUI 2.5.0 Released
For you javascript fans, Yahoo has released version 2.5.0 of the YUI library with lots and lots of goodness and changes.
Episode 19. Tainted edition. This is even a day later than we promised which we're really sorry about. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Code Spaces. Here's a direct link to Chu Yeow's latest edge rails post.
The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored by Code Spaces. Code Spaces is an online development and collaboration platform featuring subversion hosting, issue tracking, forums, and much more. Even better, it's a Ruby on Rails application so it's right up your street.
Question out to everyone: Is there any interest in an enhanced version of the podcast? We've noticed that the Apple TV now has a phenomenal podcast browser. If anyone is listening that way, we could spice it up with some graphics for each story. Would anyone mind the format switch to aac or m4a instead of mp3? Please let us know in the comments.
Episode 18. It was great to meet everyone at acts_as_conference over the weekend. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and here's a Living on the Edge #7.
The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored by Code Spaces. Code Spaces is an online development and collaboration platform featuring subversion hosting, issue tracking, forums, and much more. Even better, it's a Ruby on Rails application so it's right up your street.
Episode 17. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia. Here is a direct link to his edge rails post.
The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored by Corpedia. Corpedia provides ethics and compliance solutions to major corporations. Corpedia is proud to support the Rails community in Phoenix Arizona and is currently hiring Ruby on Rails developers.
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Episode 16. Gregg and I rant at the end of the podcast this week as well as make wild and false accusations about gems. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.
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Episode 15. We've tried to cut down the length of the podcast this week since last week we went a bit overboard. Let us know what you think. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.
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Episode 14. In this episode, you could create a drinking game based on how many times I say that Rails can't scale. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.
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Episode 13. In this episode we try and solve a mystery. If you need to get in touch with us regarding the podcast or would like to let us know about some news, send an email to podcast at railsenvy dot com and Gregg or I will get back to you. A big thank you to Chu Yeow for both being awesome and getting us the latest updates to edge rails.
Episode 12. Hope you all had a great new years and holiday season. This episode we're premiering a new weekly feature we call Living on the Edge, where we report the latest developments on Rails trunk. Big thanks to Chu Yeow, a core contributer himself, for getting us this information.
Episode 11. This episode is a bit longer because we're trying something a bit new, so we'd love your feedback. Also in this episode, we make you never think of route globbing the same way again.
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Ferret Update - Since this podcast we have gotten feedback about Ferret working successfully in production environments, so perhaps Jason and I just ran into some fluke problems.
Episode 9. Our first ever podcast with a guest and a short interview. We're going to try and start recording earlier in the week so these delays don't happen. As always, thanks to the Pragmatic Studio for sponsorship and please let us know if you have any feedback for us or anything you'd like us to cover.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Episode 8. Just in time for Thanksgiving. But we don't actually wish anyone a Happy Thanksgiving. And we're not going to. Eat some turkey and enjoy the food coma. In our usual habit of recycling jokes, there's more of the same this week. As always, thanks to the Pragmatic Studio for sponsorship and please let us know if you have any feedback for us or anything you'd like us to cover.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Episode 7. We have officially moved the podcast release to Wednesdays. As always, thanks to the Pragmatic Studio for sponsorship and please let us know if you have any feedback for us or anything you'd like us to cover.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Episode 6. In this episode: Werewolf, lolcats, and more pudding. Sorry for getting things out so late in the day, had some wonderful issues with Soundtrack. As always, thanks to the Pragmatic Studio for sponsorship and please let us know if you have any feedback for us or anything you'd like us to cover.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Episode 5 coming at ya. It's not quite as long as last week's episode, but we hope we make up for that in quality. As always, thanks to the Pragmatic Studio for sponsorship and please let us know if you have any feedback for us or anything you'd like us to cover.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Here's episode 4 after a bit later in the day. As always, thanks to the Pragmatic Studio for sponsorship and please let us know if you have any feedback for us or anything you'd like us to cover.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Along comes Episode 3 of the Rails Envy podcast - your weekly source for Ruby and Rails news. In this episode, I try to give full text search as an example of practically everything. As always, thanks to the Pragmatic Studio for sponsorship and please let us know if you have any feedback for us or anything you'd like us to cover.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Here we are with episode 2 of the Rails Envy podcast - your weekly source for Ruby and Rails news. We're still pretty new at this Podcasting thing, so please let us know if you have any feedback, or what you'd like to hear.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
Looking for a way to keep up to date on the most recent developments in the Ruby / Rails world? Every Tuesday we'll be releasing a new podcast covering all the news of our community. We're pretty new at this Podcasting thing, so please let us know if you have any feedback, or what you'd like to hear.
The Rails Envy podcast is proudly sponsored by the Pragmatic Studio which, in cooperation with Pragmatic Programmers, offers public training on cutting-edge technologies including Ruby, Rails and Erlang. You can check them out at http://www.pragmaticstudio.com.
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