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Episode #101 - August 10, 2010

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Microsoft, IronRuby, and Jimmy Schementi start this episode of Ruby5. Then, we touch on Ruby Zucker, AJAX Exceptions, details of the Ruby splat operator, and learning BDD by playing dice.

This episode is sponsored by Acts As Conference. A Ruby on Rails and Software Craftsmanship Training conference being held October 28-30 in Orlando, FL.

  • Acts As Conference
  • Jimmy Schementi
  • Zucker
  • Ajax and Exceptions
  • BDDice
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  • OMG Splat!
  • Ruby5

Ruby Zucker 2 - Syntactic Sugar for Ruby Jump to Story

Last week Jan Lelis released the Ruby Zucker gem which provides a bit of syntactic sugar to the standard Ruby library. It provides shortcuts to Enumerable’s #zip, Inifinity and NaN constants, Array #sum, a left-chomp on strings, unions with Regular Expressions, and a lot more.

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Rails 4.0 rc2, Understanding the GIL, Font Awesome Rails, String Inquirer, and gist dep are all featured in this RubyLoco powered Ruby5

June 11th, 2013

RubyGems paranoia, unexpected chained scopes in Rails 4, Rubberband flamethrowers, Stripe with Rails, and efficient Git pairing.

June 7th, 2013

Interact with GitHub through Octokit, choosing a European payment gateway, importing and exporting databases with DbSync, pluck values from your tables, using ember-auth with Rails 3 and Authlogic, and field-level access control with Protector all in this episode of Ruby5!

June 4th, 2013

Wiselinks ... Code Smells ... Step by Step Rails ... Wrapping a C library in Ruby ... rack-showme ... ORUCO Streaming