Rails Envy

Episode 061. Happy New Year! I went a little heavier on the sound effects in this one because I haven't done that in a while.

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• Bringing Merb's provides/display into Rails 3
• Katz Got Your Tongue? » Dispatch from the Front Lines
• Scalable Datasets: Bloom Filters in Ruby - igvita.com
• theIntuitionist's lite-fixtures at master — GitHub
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Mastering Rails Forms
• thuss's standalone-migrations at master — GitHub
• SapphireSteel :: The Book Of Ruby
• boof's column_scope at master — GitHub
• Katz Got Your Tongue? » Merb 1.0.7 Release Notes
• irb & script/console tips — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
• dotfiles.org | community for sharing dotfiles
• Mark Tucker's Brainwork: Unit Testing Using Context
• matthooks's vimeo at master — GitHub
• Matthias Georgi - Kontrol - a micro framework
• Agile Ajax » acts_without_database: Leverage ActiveRecord with Non-Database Backed Objects » Pathfinder Development
• Sanitize: A whitelist-based Ruby HTML sanitizer
• wvk's dynamime at master — GitHub

Episode 060. Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! OMFG MERB AND RAILS OMG OMG OMG OMG. And that's going to be in next week's episode! LOL!

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• Rails Metal: a micro-framework with the power of Rails: \m/
• Merb Dependencies and Bundler: Conquered! (Screencast) | Splendificent
• InfoQ: Rhodes Brings Ruby Apps to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry
• Object-oriented sheep, running around in Ruby Shoes [Restafari.org]
• Sinatra: 29 Links and Resources For A Quicker, Easier Way to Build Webapps
• Ruby Advent 2008
• Meet Emacs | PeepCode Screencasts for Web Developers and Alpha Geeks
• terrbear.org» Blog Archive » Rails/Web App Performance, Part 1 - Measurement
• JRuby 1.1.6 Released - JRuby - Codehaus
• Rack-based Session Stores on Rails : Admoo Labs
• CloudKit - An Open Web JSON Appliance
• RubyRef: Ruby Documentation on your iPhone » Vestal Design
• Geokit for Ruby & Rails: home
• Managed Rails Hosting, Rails Deployment from Engine Yard   |   Vertebra
• Robert Sosinski » Understanding Ruby Blocks, Procs and Lambdas

Episode 059. We have a thorough episode this week. Is there something you want to see in the podcast? Let us know!

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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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• The Great Ruby Shootout (December 2008) | Zen and the Art of Programming
• Dr Nic » Future proofing your Ruby code. Ruby 1.9.1 is coming.
• Web Spidering and Data Extraction with scRUBYt! | Ruby Pond
• scrubber's scrubyt_examples at master — GitHub
• Pathfinder Development » Rails Worst Practices: 13 Coding Nightmares You Should Avoid
• Robby on Rails : Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist
• Introducing Cache Money « Magic Scaling Sprinkles
• memecircus - Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Merb, Open Source, Linux, Web Development, Coding News
• Install Glassfish for Deployment on Ubuntu 8.10
• Introducing Mint Store a strategic store for merb
• Bug Trackers I Have Known « A Fresh Cup
• Phusion Passenger 2.0.6 released « Phusion Corporate Blog
• GUIfy your Ruby apps with Shoes
• A Collection of Rack middlewares
• josh's metal at master — GitHub
• Mental Paging Space: Rails to Windows Integration - Single Signon with NTLM and Mongrel
• Riding Rails: RailsWay - German Rails Magazine
• ddollar's socket-debugger at master — GitHub
• Rails Magazine
• Ruby for systems administrators
• Insider Scoop From the Tutorial Divas
• The Rollsteady Network » Blog Archive » Ruby on Rails HTTP Basic Auth with LDAP
• Rails TakeFive - A Conversation with Gregg Pollack
• Merb Training
• Acts as Conference 2009
• [Update]Rails, Ajax, and jQuery courtesy of Wiktor

Episode 058. I'm back this week after having shoulder surgery last week. Also, I'm on pain killers this episode. Whee! Enjoy.

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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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• Phusion Passenger 2.0.5 released; mentioned on live.37signals.com « Phusion Corporate Blog
• Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20081205 released, thank you sponsors « Phusion Corporate Blog
• Pathfinder Development » Pimp my Rails: Five Plugins & Gems to Make Rails Better
• hookr's hookr-1.0.0 Documentation
• Ruby Advent 2008
• Fitting curves to data using Ruby and the GNU Scientific Library
• Ubiquity RDoc Search Command
• Paris on Rails 2008 - Téléchargements
• Rails templates
• Logging your model with a custom log « mediapeers development blog
• trak3r's iphone-rdoc-template at master — GitHub
• The Merbist » Blog Archive » Merb ♡ Rails | merb news - consulting - training
• Merb master/worker monit control setup
• Your customers aren't idiots
• Object.try
• Not my gorilla
• Pocket Rails
• Shoes 2 Released

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!

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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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• Ruby 1.9.1 Preview 2

• New Rails 'Blog in 15 mins' Video

• alter-ego 1.0.0 Released (state machine)

• The Closet JRubyists

• Terracotta and JRuby makes JMaglev

• JMaglev Screencast

• IronRubyUnit 1.0 Released

• Merb 1.0 Controller Testing

• What's hot on Github

• Github upgrade for free

• Ruboss - A Flex Framework for Rails

• Getting Started with Ruboss

• 10 minute Sinatra Screencast

• Asset Management for Rails using asset_copier

• This Week in Edge Rails #1

• This Week in Edge Rails #2

Episode 056. Sorry about leaving you without a podcast last week without warning, but we're back this week with a bunch of really useful Ruby tools.

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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.

• Ruby on Rails 2.2 Released
• Moving to Rails 2.2 Headaches
• ApiDock - Now with Rails 2.2
• Rails meets Sinatra
• Rack and Rack Builder
• Shoulda for RSpec is Remarkable
• Speeding up Rails Development
• Installing Ruby 1.9 Preview 1 on OSX
• The Rails Myths
• Tutorial on hosting with Amazon AWS with EC2 and EBS
• Professional Ruby Conference Notes
• Notes from the Ruby Manor
• Acts As Conference CFP open
• A Test Server for Rails Apps
• Pushr, or the application will deploy itself
• Ruby Networking on Steroids
• Introducing Compass for Sass
• Rails Rumble Observations
• R18n Internationalization Gem
• Timecop: Freeze Time in Ruby
• Amazon CloudFront
• Ramaze By Example
• Integration tests with Shoulda/Factory Girl/Webrat
• SPactor

Episode 055. RubyConf wrap-up this episode. It's also the longest episode ever clocking in at 26 minutes of awesome.

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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.

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• Merb 1.0
• Meet Merb PDF by Peepcode
• Merb 1.0 Released So Here’s 44 Links and Resources To Get You Going
• Adding color to your Merb.logger
• Merb OpenID Consumer Application based on Merb-Auth : atmos.org
• JRuby 1.1.5 Released - comp.lang.ruby | Google Groups
• JRuby on Open Office
• Ruby on Rails Security Project - The Book
• Red/Redshift Demo App on Vimeo
• nutrun » Blog Archive » HTTP accelerator cache purging
• Creating Filesystems with Ruby and FUSE
• RSpec should each matcher — Thoughtfolder
• caboose On hiring Rubyists and Railsers
• MountainWest RubyConf 2009 dates and CFP
• Headius: FFI for Ruby Now Available
• Hungry Machine: How to save 100m of RAM per mongrel
• #1215 Add :only/:except options to map.resources - Ruby on Rails - rails
• Binary Logic - Tutorial: Authlogic Basic Setup
• A major milestone for DB2 on Rails | DB2 on Rails
• InfoQ: Static Analysis Tools Roundup: Roodi, Rufus, Reek, Flay
• SimplySearchable Plugin
• BlogFish: Webistrano 1.4 released
• Pony, The Express Way To Send Email From Ruby, Bonus: Django Pony
• You Suck at Ruby
• Ruby Sparring

Episode 054. I hope to see everyone at Rubyconf! Find us and say hi if you're there. I'll be the one talking about how Rails can't scale.

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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 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.

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• Ruby 1.9.1 preview1 is out
• evil.che.lu - ANN: braid 0.5 - vendor your git and svn repositories
• Riding Rails: Rails Guides Wants You
• listrophy's suprails at master — GitHub
• SDS and Ruby : Infozerk Inc.
• InfoQ: Ruby SDK for the Microsoft Cloud Computing Platform Released
• 2008 Rails Rumble And The Winners Are...
• 37signals's cached_externals at master — GitHub
• Ruby and Shoes Programming: A New Course | RubyLearning Blog
• self.works_with_ruby? - session_lifetime plugin
• Fixtureless datas with Machinist and Sham
• nokogiri-1.0.3 Documentation
• JetBrains RubyMine/a>
• Optimizing RDoc
• Daniel Azuma: Implementing DSL Blocks
• Terralien - Announcing the textile_toolbar Plugin
• Move Over Rails. Here Comes Merb.
• Merb OpenID Consumer Application based on Merb-Auth : atmos.org
• MerbCamp: We're going camping!

Episode 053. Dripping with sarcasm, awesomeness, and shameless self promotion. And icon ideas.

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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.

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• Riding Rails: Rails 2.2 RC1: i18n, thread safety, docs, etag/last-modified, JRuby/1.9 compatibility
• Ruby on Rails 2.2 Envycast & PDF for $16
• has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Thread safety for your Rails
• The Merbist » Blog Archive » Merb 1.0 RC2
• Litany Against Fear » Tales of software development (with a little spice) from Nick Quaranto » GitHub Rebase #1
• Relevance Blog : Introducing Vasco: A Route Explorer for Rails
• Fast Substructure Search Using Open Source Tools Part 1: Fingerprints and Databases
• Ruby on the Interrails: Introducing fuzzy-find-in-project: TextMate-style file browsing in Emacs
• Introducing Rack::Cache
• Merb Day Atlanta | Schedule
• nakajima's acts_as_fu at master — GitHub
• Louis-Philippe Gauthier - How to use Google Reverse Geocoding from Ruby
• 10 Awesome Ruby on Rails Techniques to Get You Started - NETTUTS
• Scaling ActiveRecord with MySQLPlus - igvita.com
• Ruby 1.9 for Symbian OS
• mbg notes. Massive Brain Games developers notes - Mysqladmin in Rails
• New Peepcodes - On Thinking Sphinx and Couch DB.
• Using Gmail with IMAP to Receive Email in Rails // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
• Easy Upload via URL with attachment_fu - almost effortless
• README.rdoc at master from karmi's localized_country_select — GitHub
• dancroak's webster at master — GitHub
• attr_serializable

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