Rails Envy

We were just holding out on you. There's one more after this one but it's not done yet.

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.

For those of you who don't consistently listen to the Rails Envy podcast, here's a story that's worth a good laugh.

The Backstory: A few weeks ago Jason put together a Rails Envy Voicemail number so people could call in and leave messages about the podcast. We encouraged people to leave their feedback, let us know about stories, or ask any questions they wanted answered.

Last week "R. Elliot", a regular listener and commenter, left us this voicemail. I have to hand it to R. Elliot, he gave us a great laugh and gave us some great material.
Length: 1:14

Later when we were recording the podcast, Jason recommended I make a dance remix of the phone call. I couldn't resist, so:

I whipped out Garage Band, found some good hip hop beats, and here is the awesomeness of what resulted.
Length: 1:37

Let me know what you think, and feel free to check out our most recent Rails Envy Podcast. Maybe even leave your own crazy voicemail at 407-409-8440.

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

Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.

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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

Call Us! You can reach the podcast voicemail line at 407 409-8440.

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Download the podcast ~18:00 mins MP3.
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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