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Episode #23 - October 30, 2009

2416793a63b63c656da7f264db907297 Jim Hoskins 3ac3c66144bb3f7330af9fb6ab64d8a2 Nick Pettit

sinatra_more, IRWI, and WysiHat Engine, are covered in this special Halloween weekend edition of Ruby5. The Riot testing framework and the Fukuoka Ruby Award 2010 are also discussed.

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

  • New Relic RPM
  • Sinatra More
  • IRWI
  • WysiHat
  • Riot
  • Fukuoka
  • Ruby5

Riot Testing Framework Jump to Story

Riot aims at being very fast and expressive framework. In their own benchmark, they claim to run twice as fast as Test Unit. It has an interesting syntax that minimizes the code in your tests, which is a good or bad thing depending on who you ask.

August 31, 2010

Rails 3 has been released, memcached received a new Ruby library, and RubyDoc.info is in your RubyGems generating your YARD docs. Also, API versioning, extended transaction support, tutorials and more are on this episode of Ruby5.

August 27, 2010

A nice grab bag for this episode: resque_action_mailer_backend, Swift ORM, Upload Juicer, Ruby 1.9.2 debugging problems, Rails 3 RC2, and Frivol.

August 24, 2010

Azebiki, RVM's 1.0 release, home_run, Prowly, and Wrong are all covered on this episode of Ruby5. It feels so right, how can it be wrong?

August 20, 2010

We quickly mention a bunch of results of WhyDay, including releases of Shoes, Hackety Hack, Camping, Kext, and code golf in Ruby, as well as our standard fare of interesting projects like Rid, MongoMatic, a blog post on writing your own daemons in Ruby, an IRC bot framework, Swimlanes (a git visualization tool from Jim Weirich), and of course, the Ruby 1.9.2 release.