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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

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This weekend Jesse Storimer released Spin, a Ruby gem to help your tests execute faster by preloading your Rails application environment and forking a new thread whenever it's asked to run a test. It basically relys on Rails's ability to auto load classes when their called, so it's always up to date.

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RubyGems paranoia, unexpected chained scopes in Rails 4, Rubberband flamethrowers, Stripe with Rails, and efficient Git pairing.

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Interact with GitHub through Octokit, choosing a European payment gateway, importing and exporting databases with DbSync, pluck values from your tables, using ember-auth with Rails 3 and Authlogic, and field-level access control with Protector all in this episode of Ruby5!