Episode 040. Delayed because of my move. Apologies all around. Thanks for your patience!

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• 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

Last week at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) I decided to put together a video attempting to capture the essence of the event (I did something similar with Railsconf in 36 minutes earlier this year).

I ended up with is 37 minute video of great speakers including the keynoters Tim O'Reilly, Damien Conway, Tim Bray, Robert Lefkowitz, David Recordon, Nathan Torkington, and Danese Cooper.

Oscon in 37 minutes - archives 2018 7

Oscon in 37 minutes - archives 2018 7

Here is everyone shown in the video. You should really watch the whole thing, but if you want to skip to a certain person just click their name:

Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Chris DiBona, Adam Keys, Kevin Scaldeferri, Akkana Peck, John Goerzen, David 'Lefty' Schlesing, Clinton Nixon, Chris Messina, Brian Sam-Bodden, Rod Cope, Jesse Vincent, Darren Hoch, Joey Stanford, Nick Barcet, Gavin Doughtie, Jim Brandt, Ben Bleything, Theo Schlossnagle, Wen Huang, Robert 'r0ml' Lefkowitz, Ryan Briones, Matt Raible, Doug Judd, Vik Olliver, Steve Souders, Clint Talbert, Tim O'Reilly, Leslie Hawthorn, Nathan Torkington, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Damian Conway, Simon Willison, Dan Mosedale, Jason Hunter, Tim Bray, David Recordon, Scott Kveton, Stephen Lau, Danese Cooper, Anthony Baxter, ongallery, Maker Media, and Edd Dumbill.

Thanks to everyone who gave me their 30 seconds. Sorry if I filmed you but you didn't make it into this video, I had to cut it down to the vids that were short and clear.

If you're wondering how this was produced:

• $150 Flip Video.
• Edited with iMovie 2008.
• Exported from iMovie in mp4 (since that's the format the videos are from the flip).
• The audio levels were all over the place, so I edited the finished audio track in Pro Tools.
• Threw together a song in garage band.
• Recombined the audio track with the video using Quicktime.
• Uploaded to viddler.
• Did my homework, and found all the links for the talks.

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.

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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.

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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!

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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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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