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Episode #105 - August 24, 2010

Nathaniel Bibler Gregg Pollack

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

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.

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