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Episode #120 - October 15th, 2010

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Clap, Guard, Transactional Factories, Write Excel, Message Block, Ruote, and using Graphviz for fun and profit in the October 15th edition of Ruby5, with your hosts Dave Bock and Russ Olsen.

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

  • NewRelic RPM
  • CLAP
  • Guard
  • Transactional Factories
  • Write Excel
  • Message Block
  • Ruote
  • Graphviz
  • Ruby5

Transactional Factories Jump to Story

Transactional Factories is a ruby gem that adds test-suite level setup and teardown methods to your test::unit tests. Using database transactions to roll back before each test, you can avoid expensive object creation in your tests using this gem.

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