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Episode #219 - November 1st, 2011

Ruby 1.9.3 is the big story this week but we follow it up with an appraisal of config_fun and cucumber drama in Aruba, all while filming a Mockumentary and Spin-ing faster tests.

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

  • Top Ruby Jobs
  • Ruby 1.9.3
  • Appraisal
  • config_fun
  • Aruba
  • Mockumentary
  • Spin
  • Ruby5

Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth Jump to Story

If you maintain a gem and need to maintain compatibility with older gem dependencies testing against said dependencies can be a pain, and usually involves testing against multiple Gemfiles. Enter Appraisal, which allows you to write an Appraisal file which contains all the different gem versions you want to test against.

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