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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #079: 05/21/2009

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #079: 05/21/2009

by Jason on May 20, 2009

Episode 79. We mess up a lot but it's funny.

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Sponsored by New Relic 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. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

  • Ruby VM Roundup
  • Blather - XMPP DSL for Ruby
  • Queueing with RabbitMQ and AMQP
  • What to Expect in Rails 3.0 - Free Webcast
  • SMS On Rails
    • Ri_Cal gem for iCalender Integration
    • InfoQ: RiCal: A New iCalendar Library for Ruby
    • rubyredrick's ri_cal at master - GitHub
  • Build Games in Ruby using Rubygame
  • Ocra: One-Click Ruby Application Builder
  • Job_fu - Simple Asychronous Processing
  • Ruby http require
  • Rails Magazine Issue #2 - Rails 2009 Report
    • Rails Testing Frequently Asked Questions
    • Agile Ajax » Rails Testing Frequently Asked Questions — The Non-Code Version » Pathfinder Development
    • Rails Prescriptions
  • TorqueBox - Rails on JBoss
  • Dan Croak's Twitter Search Gem
  • 10 Reasons You Should Be Listening to the Rails Envy Podcast
  • Thoughtbot: Thunder Thimble
  • Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost
  • Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost.
  • 6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, +1300% requests/sec

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Episode 78. Another great episode of Ruby/Rails News. FYI, sorry the audio quality is a little off this week, but hopefully we'll be back up to par next week.

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Sponsored by New Relic 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. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

  • Nimble Method: The future of Rails is Ruby 1.9 - real performance of 1.8, JRuby and 1.9 compared
  • API Throttling Middleware
    • Tokyo Cache Cow
    • Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Value Store - igvita.com
    • joshbuddy's tokyo_cache_cow at master - GitHub
  • libcraigscrape - Craigslist Scraping
  • Delocalize Plugin for Rails
  • A better progress meter for your Ruby Scripts
  • Http in Ruby with Typhoeus
  • Ruby Toolbox
    • Melt Your Brain!
    • XMPP4R: XMPP/Jabber Library for Ruby
    • tmm1's amqp at master - GitHub
    • ezmobius's nanite at master - GitHub
    • Write a 32-line chat client using Ruby, AMQP & EventMachine (and a GUI using Shoes)
  • Github Pages for Fun and Win
  • Maptimize Google Map Helper
  • Spree Open Source Cart 0.8.0 Released
  • Spree 0.8 released
  • Blue Ridge Javascript Testing Framework from Relevance
 

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Railsconf 2009 in 34 Minutes

by gregg on May 13, 2009

Here it is, Railsconf in 34 minutes. We’ve got some great speakers on video here including Charles Nutter, Ilya Grigorik, Jim Weirich, Matt Aimonetti, Michael Koziarski, Neal Ford, Obie Fernandez, Scott Chacon, Yehuda Katz, David Chelimsky, Aslak Hellesøy, Chris Wanstrath, and David Heinemeier Hansson .. amongst many others.


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Sponsored by New Relic This Railsconf video is sponsored 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. They also recently produced Rails Lab, which gives you expert advice on tuning and optimizing your Rails app.

Looking for more video? Check out my videos from Tutorial Day, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

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Rubystein: Ruby meets Wolfenstein

by gregg on May 11, 2009

At Railsconf 2009 the guys over at Phusion released Rubystein, a Wolfenstein clone written in Ruby. I managed to track down Ninh Bui to give us a video walk through, and the following video was played at Railsconf before the Wednesday Keynote.


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Get the source on Github, and play it yourself.

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Railsconf 2009 - Wednesday

by gregg on May 08, 2009

Finally, here's the last video I put together for Railsconf, summarizing the event. I'll be working on my speaker video and hopefully have that posted sometime next week.


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Thanks for Watching!

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Railsconf 2009 - Tuesday

by gregg on May 06, 2009

Here’s my video covering Tuesday at Railsconf 2009. This time around I asked people to tell me about a Gem, Plugin, or Library they’ve used in the past few months that saved them time.


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Thanks very much to Keenan Brock, for putting together a list of the libraries that were mentioned:

  • cucumber (x3)
  • compass
  • googlecharts
  • hpricot (bought a house) 2
  • fastercsv
  • chronic
  • tokyo cabinet
  • factory girl
  • shoulda (x2)
  • twitter gem
  • active scaffold
  • germinate
  • pdf writer
  • search logic
  • nokrogarie (x2)
  • json/pure
  • rails widget
  • webrat (x2)
  • ck_fu
  • fakeweb

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Railsconf 2009 - Tutorials Day

by gregg on May 05, 2009

Couldn't make it to Railsconf this year? That's okay, I'm going to be putting together a bunch of videos so you can see what's been going on. Starting with this one:


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Stay tuned for more videos. Doesn't look like we're going to be putting out a podcast this week. Hopefully these videos make up for it.

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