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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #009: 11/29/2007

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #008: 11/21/2007

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #009: 11/29/2007

by Jason on Nov 29, 2007

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.

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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.


In this episode:


  • Rails 1.2.6

  • Gemtacular

  • Rails 2.0 Screencasts

  • BitNami RubyStack

  • Ruby Method Visibility

  • Sexy Time Zones in Ruby on Rails with Timezone_Fu

  • Database Optimization for Rails Apps

  • Komodo Edit Closer look

  • Mephisto + Mongrel + Nginx

  • Super Fast Micro Framework For APIs and Upload Handling

  • LiveConsole

  • Ruby Blocks Gotchas

  • Amazon EC2 with Ruby

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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.

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In this episode:


  • Caching Makes your Brain explode

  • QueryTrace toggle

  • Netbeans 6.0 RC1

  • Get started with Merb + Datamapper

  • Ruby object/class/module/singleton Tutorial

  • RejectConf Videos Up

  • Installing MySQL on Mac OSX

  • EMail Veracity Plugin

  • Testing XML Builder with RSpec & Hpricot

  • jRails

  • Presenting your work

  • Testing RDDB

  • New O’reilly Conference – Velocity

  • Two additional ways to scale your website

  • Master/Slave Databases with Ruby on Rails

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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.

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Download the podcast ~10:30 mins MP3.
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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.


In this episode:


  • Rails 2.0 RC1

  • JRuby Introduction

  • ActiveRecord-JDBC

  • Rails Deployment

  • Make Resourceful 0.2.2

  • Will_paginate Testing

  • Prototype 1.6.0, Scriptaculous 1.8.0, and Scripteka.com

  • Google's OpenSocial in Ruby on Rails

  • Open-ID tutorial

  • Alternative Ruby Frameworks

  • Merb 0.4.0 and Merbivore.com

  • RDDB Released

  • Git Screencast

  • Nginx fair proxy balancer


Update: You can start your "How to take on 5 year olds" training here.

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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.

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Download the podcast ~10:30 mins MP3.
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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.


In this episode:


  • Pagecaching Rails with JSON callback personalization

  • JRuby 1.0.2 Released

  • JRuby 1.1 beta 1 Released

  • Is Werewolf Killing the Conference Hackfest?

  • Custom Find Methods, HasFinder Gem

  • Preparing for Rails 2.0

  • Named Routes in Javascript

  • Boosting ActiveRecord Performance

  • Installing RMagick on Leopard

  • A crash course in Ruby

  • Restful_authentication Bug

  • Super fast IP to lat/lng in Rails

  • 37 Signals Campfire Examples

  • Unit Tests without Rails

  • Google’s OpenSocial API

  • jq4r

  • RailsConf 08 Call for Participation

  • $240 Worth of Pudding - So you get the joke
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XhS80rwjIg

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