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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

Learn BDD Playing Dice Jump to Story

On August 3rd, Valerio Farias published a free ebook he created titled, "Learning BDD Playing Dice." It's definitely introductory, but certainly easy to follow and has a decent story line if you're new to BDD and want to flex your RSpec muscles.

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May 17th, 2013

Today's episode covers a major release for minitest, some JSON standards work, a tutorial on tagging with ActiveRecord and Postgres (plus an arduino to trigger the spray paint can), a RubyMotion tutorial and a little thing called CoVim that will blow your mind.

May 14th, 2013

From multi to native json, JoyBox hits 1.0, ContextValidations and FormObjects, teaching kids at KidsCodeCamp, Plataformatec gems, tab navigation with Tabulous 2 and Git Real 2 online course.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.