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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!

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.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.

May 7th, 2013

We Adequackly cover RailsConf and free Rails 4 videos, Phusion Passenger 4.0.1, a Better STI approach, logging your Mail, and setting up a Rails 4 Server, all while releasing the Jekyll on this episode of Ruby5.