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Below is an archive of podcast episodes published on Ruby5.

February 2012

• Episode #243 - February 3rd, 2012

  February 3, 2012 See who's in the office with snitch, generate api docs from your rspec suite, learn some cool vim tricks, improve your UI with bootstrap 2.0, and more in this episode of Ruby5!

January 2012

• Episode #242 - January 31, 2012

  January 31, 2012 In 3.2.1, we Devise a way to run Ruby 1.9.2 on Heroku, by using a 30% Faster Kookaburra that we Resqued during a recent trip Cross-Country - it's all in this episode of Ruby5.

• Episode #241 - January 27th, 2012

  January 27, 2012 We weren't timely enough to get the news of the release of Rails 2.3.1, but we are still chock full of ruby news this week! The BitNami RailsStack installer, business_time, DCI education and commentary, Draper 1.1, theme-in-a-gem, Lisp in Ruby, wat, and Rails' Hidden Features in this feature-packed Ruby5.

• Episode #240 - January 24th, 2012

  January 24, 2012 Rails 3.2 has barely arrived that Rails Tutorial teleports from the future. Meanwhile we get a nifty console for Test Unit, and millions of links become Google buddies thanks to sitemap_generator.

• Episode #239 - January 20th, 2012

  January 20, 2012 Would-you-like-to-play-a-game? Global-thermo-tic-tac-toe? Yes! This week, the Minimax game AI algorithm, some Sinatra goodies and Factory Girl goes meta. We also talk about Hobson and a solid programming tip to boot.

• Episode #238 - January 17th, 2012

  January 17, 2012 This week we start out with the open source commenting app Juvia, Neo4J on Heroku, Lying tests, local Rails docs, Smelly Cucumbers, and finally it's time again for the Ruby Hero Awards.

• Episode #237 - January 13th, 2012

  January 13, 2012 Updated DataMapper roadmap, leveling up your TDD with tslime and turbux, serving up some haml, using RefineryCMS with Rails 3.1.3 and Heroku, and the Ronin release candidates

• Episode #236 - January 10rd, 2012

  January 10, 2012 Diving under the covers of RSpec 2.8 with a quick look at Minitest, we KnockoutJS wearing our Pumas and run all the way to SpreeConf.

• Episode #235 - January 6th, 2012

  January 6, 2012 Rails 3.2 rc2, Rack 1.4, Delayed Job 3, Scrollarama, A home study course on Geo Rails, middleman, and 3 bookmarklets to enhance your mad web development skillz.

• Episode #234 - January 3rd, 2012

  January 3, 2012 In the first episode of 2012 we learn about a DOS in Ruby 1.8.7, Ember.js for Rails 3.1, Rails is still cool, Graylog2, Decorator implementations, and lastly we learn why Nate still wears yellow underwear like Hulk Hogan.js

December 2011

• Episode #233 - December 23rd, 2011

  December 23, 2011 Rails 3.2 RC1 is out … RailsConf 2012 is in Austin … GitHub open sources Janky continuous integration … “Three Metaprogramming Best Practices” blog post … “Write Better Cukes With the Rel Attribute” blog post … “Three Tips to Improve the Performance of Your Test Suite” blog post

• Episode #232 - December 20th, 2011

  December 20, 2011 Presto! We go to Kathmandu to Track some elusive Spatial Data Formats with Cookies, head back to the States to meet Jenkins, and slowly stagger back while trying to pronounce Vendorer on this episode of Ruby5.

• Episode #231 - December 16, 2011

  December 16, 2011 Untested code with Gary Bernhardt, gherkin with turnip, slanger, Rural User Groups, RubyConf videos, Forem, free Rails 3 book in Dutch, and colorful JSON output in the console.

• Episode #230 - December 13th, 2011

  December 13, 2011 MongoDB Logger, EventMachine, BrakeMan, Representer pattern, Smooth s3, and why metaprogram when you can program. All discussed on today's Ruby5 podcast.

• Episode #229 - December 9th, 2011

  December 9, 2011 The 2011 Ruby Year in Review, RailsConf Videos, yslow from the command line, scaling mysql, HumaneJS, rein, GroupedScope, FireCSS, and your usual witty commentary on this episode of Ruby5

• Episode #228 - December 6, 2011

  December 6, 2011 We heard you like files, so In this episode we Git to Automatically EXPLAIN DHH's JBuilder and Report what we've seen, as well as get some Early Access to Objects. It's Ruby5!

• Episode #227 - December 2, 2011

  December 2, 2011 Today, Evan Light helps us name things and we look at an approach to custom configuration in Rails. Then we get voyeuristic and don our capes for a plucky adventure! Can you stand it?

November 2011

• Episode #226 - November 29, 2011

  November 29, 2011 Practicing Ruby Journal freebies, Resque-retry, unobtrusive link_to deletions, testing responsive layouts, ending autoload, and moxy. All covered today, no sugar added.

• Episode #225 - November 22, 2011

  November 22, 2011 Lots of Rails point releases (the more the better), Maglev 1.0, Rails Admins, CapHub, Rails 3.1 Subdomains, and OAuth2 are all discussed this Monday along with the release of jQuery Air 2: Captains Log.

• Episode #224 - November 18, 2011

  November 18, 2011 Deciding between stripe and activemerchant, early access beta of "Objects on Rails", sparkline graphs in your shell, pseudo-Siri server, cracking md5s, ChuckTestar, and recognition of our fallen colleagues.

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