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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #024 - 3 - Information, Details and

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #024 - 3 - Information, Details and

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #024: 03/26/2008

by gregg on Mar 26, 2008

Episode 024. This week Jason takes a week off and I'm joined 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 Halogen Guides. For world-wide vacation home alternatives check out Halogen Guides Real Estate, for the insider's guide to private aviation see Halogen Guies Jets, and for the best in 5-star travel deals see Halogen Guides Travel.

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In this episode:


  • Phusion Pasesenger (mod_rails)

  • Ruby as an applescript replacement

  • JRuby 1.1 RC3 Released

  • Big name companies using Ruby on Rails

  • Speeding up gem on OSX Leopard

  • For attaching files, use Paperclip

  • Building a Better Ruby

  • Google AJAX Language API

  • Protosafe

  • Git-Style Automatic Paging in Ruby

  • SMS Fu

  • Cruise Control Progress Charts

  • Living on the Edge

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).

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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.

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In this episode:


  • rAtom 0.2.1 Gem released

  • RadRails 1.0 Release

  • TextMate for Rails 2 Peepcode

  • RSpactor

  • Using Cells to bring re-use to your Rails views

  • Rails Search Benchmarks

  • InLine

  • Ruby Mendicant

  • Yahoo Fire Eagle

  • Google Sitemaps

  • memcached dogpile effect

  • can_flag plugin released

  • MetaProgramming Logger

  • Doodle

  • Lovd By Less

  • Use attr_protected or we will hack you

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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.

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In this episode:


  • Merb 0.9.1

  • Merb Peepcode

  • JRubyStack

  • MacRuby

  • Cleanly Migrate your Subversion Repo to Git

  • Migration Concordance

  • How to avoid a disastrous launch

  • Ultrasphinx

  • Acts_as_sphinx + Tests

  • Campfire messages in Growl

  • Make Campfire growl your name only

  • Google Contacts API

  • Mack Framework

  • Write your typo posts in Haml

  • JavaInline

  • Mephisto + Defensio

  • The Steve and Obie Show

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Episode 21. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia.

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In this episode:


  • Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard

  • Capistrano 2.2 Released

  • Installing Ruby & Friends on Mac OSX Leopard

  • Google Maps Static API Gem Released

  • Count vs Length vs Size

  • Ruby Tarantula

  • Try()

  • Replace method_missing with dynamic method definitions

  • Sharing code between ActiveRecord Models

  • Ebb Web Server

  • Riding the Waves of a new Ruby Web Framework

  • Custom Textile Tags

  • Building a Website with Webby

  • Open classes: (1..100).inject(&:+)

  • A detailed explination of Ruby’s Symbol#to_proc

  • Philly Emerging Tech Conference

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