5:29 Play Subscribe with or

Episode #227 - December 2, 2011

3615ab75201ede5880e779287a6b5316.jpg?s=18&r=pg&d=http%3a%2f%2fwww.gravatar.com%2favatar%2f8ebf4339f7c8cd73b53d1d1d3eba7c35 Les Hill 241ab9ad3d170ef48f21d120a7684017.jpg?s=18&r=pg&d=http%3a%2f%2fwww.gravatar.com%2favatar%2f8ebf4339f7c8cd73b53d1d1d3eba7c35 Wes Gibbs

Today, Evan Light helps us name things and we look at an approach to custom configuration in Rails. Then we get voyeuristic and don our capes for a plucky adventure! Can you stand it?

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

  • New Relic
  • Code Names
  • Rails Configuration
  • Voyeur
  • Cape
  • Pluck
  • Ruby5

Naming Things In Your Code Jump to Story

Naming things is hard. It's true of offspring and of your code. Evan Light begs you to take the time to get it right.

May 24th, 2013

An Intervention for ActiveRecord, Using Gems in RubyMtion, GemConfig, using Nested Attributes with BackBone, Lyricfy (sorry - Chris made me sing!), and a shoutout to Josh Kemp in this RubyLoco-Powered episode of Ruby5.

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.