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Episode #101 - August 10, 2010

Nathaniel Bibler Gregg Pollack

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
• Placeholder
• OMG Splat!
• Ruby5

Placeholder Images with Placeholder

Have you ever needed placeholder images when developing your site layout? If so, you should checkout placeholder.it, which is a web service that generates those images on the fly, just for you. And, recently, Matt Darby released the Placeholder gem which gives a simple interface to generating the request URLs for these resources.

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