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Episode #164 - April 5, 2011

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Goliath gets Clever, Development on the Road tests your Sanity, Rubygems and Bundler get bumped, and nominations for the 2011 Ruby Hero Awards are now open on this episode of Ruby5.

This episode is sponsored by Rails Best Practices. Take your Rails development skills to the next level.

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  • Rubygems and Bundler
  • Rails on the Road
  • Clever Algorithms
  • active_sanity
  • Concurrent Programming
  • Ruby Hero Awards
  • Ruby5

Clever Algorithms – in Ruby Jump to Story

Jason Brownlee has been putting together a book called Clever Algorithms which focuses on "nature-inspired programming recipes." The algorithms included cover evolutionary, swarm, probabilistic algorithms, and more. The book is freely available online and contains Ruby code examples for all algorithms, and the book's source is available on GitHub. Also, if you like the content, you can purchase a physical copy to give Jason some love.

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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.