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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
  • Placeholder
  • OMG Splat!
  • Ruby5

Rails, Ajax and Exceptions? Bring it on. Jump to Story

Dane Harrigan wrote up an interesting solution to the problem of displaying error messages in your browser when they occur during AJAX requests. His method involves using an around_filter and custom jQuery error handler call to display the full exception message in a lightbox. Pretty nifty.

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