Rails Envy

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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• 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.

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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 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

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.

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• shuber's Profile — GitHub
• Release 0.8.0 — Mack Framework
• YouTube - Monty Python-Witch
• helper testing using ActionView::TestCase @ Technical Pickles
• Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations - igvita.com
• Autotest Notifications in Ubuntu with Mumbles « dambalah
• Can Ruby, Rails Make Developers Shine in a Downturn?
• GravityBlast - Andrea Franz's Blog » Blog Archive » Radiant iPhone extension 0.0.1
• RubyCocoa: Store User Password in Keychain @ 知易行难
• Merbcamp - notes from the edge | Ruby Pond
• First release of ffmpeg-ruby
• Ruby Manor
• pillowfactory.org : "We ain't got no RSpec" - The Birthday Regift
• dcrec1's restful-authentication-i18n at master — GitHub
• James on Software: Blank: A Starter App for r_c and shoulda Users
• the { buckblogs :here }: Coming home to Vim

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.

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• Thin 1.0 « Marc-André Cournoyer’s blog
• tog
• pivotal's desert at master — GitHub
• :: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: shoulda 2.0
• play/type blog. Workling Version 0.3 Released
• Shoulda Testing Cheat Sheet | Kyle Banker
• Codeword: Studios -> Introducing WeatherMan, a Ruby Gem.
• Named_scope backport
• Scotland on Rails
• Load Testing With Log Replay - igvita.com
• Katz Got Your Tongue? » Merb Master Process
• The Merbist » Blog Archive » Get on Merb Edge pre 1.0
• TextMate reigns supreme with ‘Ack in Project’ | eval(code)
• metautonomo.us » Blog Archive » Easy Role-Based Authorization in Rails
• Ruby Tools Roundup - The Devver Blog
• default_value_for Rails plugin: declaratively define default values for ActiveRecord models « Phusion Corporate Blog
• Rails XLS Revived
• Scotland on Rails
• » BaseApp: a quick start for your Rails App Ariejan.net
• Top 5 uses for Capistrano
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Rails Development for the Facebook Platform
• :: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: Custom Tags in Liquid
• Fair Answers » Blog Archive » My Month-A-Page Calendar
• Dan Manges's Blog - Testing Fragment Caching

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.

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• Migration From RSpec Stories — cucumber — GitHub
• Koz Speaks — Random Musings on Technology: Countries and Controversies
• Pathfinder Development » TankEngine: New plugin for Rails iPhone Development
• Coffee Powered » Powerful, easy, DRY, multi-format REST APIs
• Aimred - Getting The Most Out of IRb With Inspect
• Rails Rumble 2008 :: Welcome to the 2008 Rails Rumble
• JS.Class - Ruby-style JavaScript
• pmade inc. - Understanding Ruby Singleton Classes
• Pathfinder Development » Rails Performance, Code Metrics, and Locking Down your Application: Tips & Tricks from Windy City Rails 2008
• Automatic Rails at Slicehost
• A CouchDB primer for an ActiveRecord mindset | upstream agile - software
• MyUtil™ | Rake task to transfer a Rails database, say from MySQL to Postgres and back again
• Great Lakes Ruby Bash
• MerbOutpost brings MerbCamp to UK, watch MerbCamp meet other Merbists!
• The Merbist by Matt Aimonetti
• Can Merb Scale? (Hint: yes)
• RubyForge: RubyGems: File Release Notes and Changelog
• Updating RubyGems to 1.3.0 on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4

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.

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• Ruby on Rails guides
• Memo-what? - A Guide to Memoization
• Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist - Articles - Matthew Moore
• scie.nti.st » Making methods immutable in Ruby (or, Death to Monkey Patching)
• Buci on Rails | My first DSL in Ruby
• GitHub Tagging Extension
• PaulBarry.com - Concerned With: Skinny Controller, Skinny Model
• Adam @ Heroku. Rifgraf
• InfoQ: Kenai: Project Hosting Built on JRuby on Rails
• MetaSkills.net Using Autotest For Rails Plugin Development
• Nikos D.: Ruby & Rails Jobs (in Europe, USA, and worldwide)
• Extending your irb at ZachInglis.com
• Multiple Attachments in Rails | Practical eCommerce
• Rails App Performance Monitoring // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker

Episode 047. Witty summary here.

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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• RPM Lite Released
• MacRuby 0.3
• Terminator - Timeout without Mercy
• Panda - open source video encoding!
• Merb 0.9.7 & New Caching & New Caching
• Fun with Procs in Ruby 1.9
• UNA 1.1
• First Release of Roodi
• UNA Screencast
• UNA 1.1
• Cached Models
• Bort and Bort with email instead of username
• South Carolina Ruby Conference
• The Fail Whale Extension

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.

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• Rails 2.1.1: Lots of bug fixes
• Rails 2.0.4 Maintenance Release
• Exploring the Ruby Interpreter
• Query memcached
• Searchgasm Released
• How to Scrape Websites using scRUBYt!
• Rails Edge Connection Pooling & Shallow Routes
• Rails Edge: Shallow Routes
• Rails Edge: Mailer Layouts
• Rapid Prototyping with Apache Derby and JRuby on Rails
• 37 Signals Nuts & Bolts: HAproxy
• Unobtrusive JQuery from Scratch
• Neverblock with Rails
• Ruby DCamp October 11-12
• Railsconf Europe Coverage
• Rails Controllers, Views, and Variables

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.

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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.

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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 037. This week's podcast delay brought to you by a certain unnamed cable company. They're [Redacted]-tastic!

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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.

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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

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.

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In this episode:

• Ruby Security Vulnerabilities

• RubyGems 1.2.0

• Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What's New

• All the Jours from Dr. Nic

• New RubyStack Released

• Ruby Community Announcements

• New Rails-doc.org website

• Rails Inside

• Rails 2.1 Gotchas

• 15 Questions to ask during a Ruby Interview

• Using jQuery with Rails

• awesome_fields plugin

• Splunk your log files

• Upload Progress w/Apache and Passenger

• Ruby conferences and tracks

• Living on the Edge part 1

• Rails Envy Podcast 35 Out-takes

In case you don't get the Yao joke in the beginning here's a link to the Yao Visa commercial.