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Episode #130 - November 30, 2010

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Today we walk the path of Ruby enlightenment with testbot, Blogcast, autocomplete, Resque-cleaner, easier MetricFu with Metrical, easier i18n with Enrichments, and Ruby Koans. All essential in your quest to learn and do great things with Ruby.

This episode is sponsored by Top Ruby Jobs. Everyone deserves to love their job (and it's probably in Ruby).

  • Top Ruby Jobs
  • testbot
  • Blogcast
  • Autocomplete
  • Resque-cleaner
  • Metrical
  • Enrichments
  • Ruby Koans
  • Ruby5

Rails 3 jQuery autocomplete Jump to Story

The next time you need to do an autocomplete text field with Rails 3, you may want to check out the Rails 3 jQuery Autocomplete gem by Crowd Interactive. It works with active record and MongoDB, it supports formtastic, it comes with some testing helpers, and it’s very customizable so you won’t end up hacking up the gem if you need it to behave a little differently.

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Easier rules for class structure, ProMotion for RubyMotion, JSON APIs in Rails 4, concurrency with Futuroscope, ActiveRecord help via Searchlight, and internationalization with haml-i18n-extractor.

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.