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Episode #22 - October 27, 2009

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Refraction, Boson, and the Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2009.10 release are discussed this episode. Along with a couple of new Rails plugins called Ancestry and Alchemist.

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  • Mad Mimi
  • Ancestry
  • Refraction
  • Boson
  • Alchemist
  • REE Breakin'
  • Ruby5

Ancestry - An ActiveRecord Tree Gem Jump to Story

Would your ActiveRecord models benefit from a more efficient tree implementation? Ancestry, a new gem by Stefan Kroes, follows the Materialized Path design pattern to track and store each object's ancestors directly in the database. This gem provides you with highly efficient database lookups, simple helpers, and seamless ActiveRecord integration.

May 21st, 2013

Easier rules for class structure, ProMotion for RubyMotion, JSON APIs in Rails 4, concurrency with Futuroscope, ActiveRecord help via Searchlight, and internationalization with haml-i18n-extractor.

May 17th, 2013

Today's episode covers a major release for minitest, some JSON standards work, a tutorial on tagging with ActiveRecord and Postgres (plus an arduino to trigger the spray paint can), a RubyMotion tutorial and a little thing called CoVim that will blow your mind.

May 14th, 2013

From multi to native json, JoyBox hits 1.0, ContextValidations and FormObjects, teaching kids at KidsCodeCamp, Plataformatec gems, tab navigation with Tabulous 2 and Git Real 2 online course.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.