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Episode #217 - October 25th, 2011

Nathaniel Bibler Gregg Pollack

Show some tender love for prepared statements, transmuter, watchtower, rails is not your application, spinach, and Rails for Zombies 2!

This episode is sponsored by Top Ruby Jobs. Everyone deserves to love their job (and it's probably in Ruby).

• Top Ruby Jobs
• Prepared Statements
• Transmuter
• Watchtower
• Not Rails
• Spinach
• Connections in AR
• Zombies 2!
• Ruby5

Spinach

Recently, Oriol Gual and the folks over at codegram realized that what they liked about Cucumber wasn't really Cucumber at all, it was Gherkin, the feature parser behind Cucumber. They ended up writing their own gem called Spinach which uses the parserand allows you to create steps which are encapsulated so you can reuse them in a cleaner way.

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