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Episode #104 - August 20, 2010

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We quickly mention a bunch of results of WhyDay, including releases of Shoes, Hackety Hack, Camping, Kext, and code golf in Ruby, as well as our standard fare of interesting projects like Rid, MongoMatic, a blog post on writing your own daemons in Ruby, an IRC bot framework, Swimlanes (a git visualization tool from Jim Weirich), and of course, the Ruby 1.9.2 release.

This episode is sponsored by New Relic. New Relic gives you performance monitoring, tracking, and reporting of your web applications.

  • NewRelic RPM
  • Whyday
  • Poignant Guide
  • Shoes 3
  • Camping 2.1
  • Hackety Hack 1.0-pre
  • Kaxxt
  • Code Golf
  • RID
  • MongoMatic
  • Skinnky Daemons
  • Cinch
  • Swimlanes
  • Ruby 1.9.2
  • Ruby5

Ruby 1.9.2 Jump to Story

Ruby 1.9.2 was just released. The release notes say it is *mostly* 1.9.1 compatible, but give a couple of places where you might want to check carefully, like the Tme class ( a complete rewrite is in this release), there is enhanced ipv6 support, which could in theory ripple into some network changes, and most importantly, the current directory is no longer on the load path. That will likely cause a few headscratchers.

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We look at easier schema-less hstore on Postgres, Ruby versions in your Gemfile, and Skype in your app. We learn how to DRY better, build a Gem from scratch, build a book without scratching yourself and how to binge on Code School for free.

May 11th, 2012

Bootstrapping young JS framework released, poppin BubbleWrap, internationalizing with alchemy, mixins and refactoring, hanging out at Rpub, and a rack middleware for contact importing.

May 8th, 2012

We Hook into Common Rails Mistakes, Process an Ox, drink some Oj, and watch RailsConf videos of a Monologue with Opee on this episode of Ruby5.

May 4th, 2012

Spree 1.1.0 e-commerce platform released … the “t” gem is command-line power tool for Twitter … the Focused Controller gem brings real OOP to Rails controllers … “10 Things You Didn’t Know Rails Could Do” talk by James Edward Gray II … “Legacy Concerns in Rails” blog post by Richard Schneeman … “ruby HTTP client performance shootout redux” blog post by Jonathan Rochkind … RubyMotion lets you use Ruby on iOS