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Episode #139 - January 7, 2011

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Tenacity, Timeago, Decent Exposure 1.0, better STI and even God all get some love today, plus some delightful repartee about hashrockets and gem versioning.

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

  • New Relic RPM
  • Decent Exposure
  • Versioning gems
  • Ruby 1.9 and God
  • => :(
  • Revisiting STI
  • Tenacity
  • Timeago
  • Ruby5

Timeago - fuzzy timestamps the easy way Jump to Story

distance_of_time_in_words, you served us well. Timeago, a jQuery plugin from Ryan McGeary, just asks that you use the HTML ABBR or TIME tag for your timestamps, and it does the rest. Fuzzy user-friendly timestamps without the trouble of typing that lengthy helper method name!

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!