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Episode #210 - September 30th, 2011

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A slow news week thanks to the distractions of rubyconf, but we have a full featured podcast for you - Formstastic 2.0 has been released, we have a good article about DCI, which is causing a bunch of conversation lately, koans for learning Coffeescript, gemstats, using LESS in the asset pipeline, and instructions for serving your piped assets over Amazon's Cloudfront CDN are all featured in this CodeSherpa-led Ruby5 expedition.

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

  • New Relic
  • Slow News Week
  • Formtastic 2.0
  • DCI Article
  • Coffeescript Koans
  • gemstats
  • Pipelined LESS
  • Pipelined Cloudfront
  • Ruby5

Coffeescript Koans Jump to Story

Want to learn Coffeescript? Nigel Runnels-Moss has released Coffeescript-Koans, a github project with a bunch of lessons that teach you concepts progressively, through testing with jasmine.

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