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Episode #166 - April 12, 2011

Nathaniel Bibler Gregg Pollack

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.

This episode is sponsored by Blue Box Group. Managed rails hosting: expert cluster design, top-tier support.

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