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Episode #159 - March 18, 2011

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Today's Ruby5 assault begins with a generous helping of slop and a swamp rat battle. It rages on with talk of zombies and cucumbers, static site generation and natural language parsing. Finally we bring it all home with a new way to protect sensitive user data and some fresh-squeezed JRuby.

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

  • New Relic RPM
  • Slop 1.0
  • Upcoming Capybara
  • Cucumber JS Alert Step
  • Ace
  • Bdoc
  • Nickel
  • attr_encrypted
  • JRuby 1.6
  • Ruby5

Encrypt your Ruby attributes easily with attr_encrypted Jump to Story

"Hey, that popular website I use every day just got hacked and look, there's my email address, phone number and home address all in plain text for everyone to see." Protect sensitive user data with Sean Huber's attr_encrypted gem. It makes it dead simple to encrypt attributes on Ruby objects.

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