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
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