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Episode #173 - May 6th, 2011

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On Today's episode we tell you about the Rails 3.1 Beta, the RubyGems 1.8 release, Avdi's Exceptional Ruby book, semantic search with Picky, organizing your models with modules, plugin-a-week's State Machine gem, Cloudist, and fun with Pow, nginx, and reverse ssh proxying.

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

  • New Relic RPM
  • Rails 3.1 Beta
  • RubyGems 1.8
  • Exceptional Ruby
  • Picky
  • Organized Models
  • State Machine
  • Cloudist
  • Pow Reverse SSH
  • Ruby5

Organized Models Jump to Story

Sometimes rails developers seem to forget that the code they are writing is Ruby, with all the power and flexibility that comes with that. This blog article by Josh Nesbit shows how you can refactor common behaviors in your models into Ruby modules.

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