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Episode #1 - August 13, 2009

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

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  • Ruby5 Welcome
  • Observational
  • Method Missing Proxy
  • Ken
  • Ruby Jumpstart
  • This Week in Rails

Ken: A Ruby API for Freebase Jump to Story

Michael Aufreiter released Ken, a gem which provides a Ruby API for the Freebase open database. Freebase provides you with freely available, structured information about people, topics, movies, music, and more.

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We look at easier schema-less hstore on Postgres, Ruby versions in your Gemfile, and Skype in your app. We learn how to DRY better, build a Gem from scratch, build a book without scratching yourself and how to binge on Code School for free.

May 11th, 2012

Bootstrapping young JS framework released, poppin BubbleWrap, internationalizing with alchemy, mixins and refactoring, hanging out at Rpub, and a rack middleware for contact importing.

May 8th, 2012

We Hook into Common Rails Mistakes, Process an Ox, drink some Oj, and watch RailsConf videos of a Monologue with Opee on this episode of Ruby5.

May 4th, 2012

Spree 1.1.0 e-commerce platform released … the “t” gem is command-line power tool for Twitter … the Focused Controller gem brings real OOP to Rails controllers … “10 Things You Didn’t Know Rails Could Do” talk by James Edward Gray II … “Legacy Concerns in Rails” blog post by Richard Schneeman … “ruby HTTP client performance shootout redux” blog post by Jonathan Rochkind … RubyMotion lets you use Ruby on iOS