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Episode #166 - April 12, 2011

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Donate to TryRuby and Pow! suddenly your Unicorn is on HireFire, a Rally breaks out over Peepcode, and all of your HTTP clients go into the Matrix... this is Ruby5.

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Just a quick note to mention that Hiroshi Nakamura has put together a super-useful Google Spreadsheet comparing the features of many popular HTTP libraries currently available in Ruby. Need to know which one throws exceptions vs uses error codes? How about which one is Ruby 1.9 compatible? Which can make parallel requests? Check it out.

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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.