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Episode #105 - August 24, 2010

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Azebiki, RVM's 1.0 release, home_run, Prowly, and Wrong are all covered on this episode of Ruby5. It feels so right, how can it be wrong?

This episode is sponsored by Obtiva. A full-service Ruby dev shop which is looking for a few great senior developers.

  • Obtiva
  • RVM 1.0
  • Prowly
  • home_run
  • Azebiki
  • Wrong
  • Ruby5

home_run - Faster Ruby Date/DateTime Classes Jump to Story

You may have heard complaints that Ruby's native Date and DateTime classes can be a bit slow. Well, Jeremy Evans jumped on the issue and rewrote much of the Date and DateTime interface on top of a native C-extension. With it, he's seeing a 20 to 200x speed increase in everyday use.

June 18, 2013

It's Rails day as Heroku moves to Ruby 2.0, Rails 2.3's life is lingering, we build Awesome APIs, visit removing Views, cut back on Callbacks, expand our Environments, and tackle Changed Tests on this episode of Ruby5.

June 14th, 2013

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!