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Episode #24 - November 3, 2009

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Signal, BigRecord, and Mail are featured on this Tuesday morning episode. We also talk a bit about Amazon RDS, Geocoder, and Twitter lists to hit on a few not-entirely-Rubyish recent events.

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  • Mad Mimi
  • Amazon RDS
  • Signal
  • BigRecord
  • Mail
  • geocoder
  • Twitter Lists
  • Ruby5

Amazon RDS Jump to Story

Daniel Wanja wrote up a quick little tutorial on getting your Rails application to work with the new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS provides you with a hosted MySQL database that can be easily backed up and grown over time. They also claim to be adding support for high-availability, by syncing your database in real-time across availability zones, soon.

May 20th, 2012

Devise 2.1, running your uncommitted rspecs, feeling dirty with soap, grabbing data out of Google spreadsheets, and more in this edition of Ruby5

May 15th, 2012

We look at easier schema-less hstore on Postgres, Ruby versions in your Gemfile, and Skype in your app. We learn how to DRY better, build a Gem from scratch, build a book without scratching yourself and how to binge on Code School for free.

May 11th, 2012

Bootstrapping young JS framework released, poppin BubbleWrap, internationalizing with alchemy, mixins and refactoring, hanging out at Rpub, and a rack middleware for contact importing.

May 8th, 2012

We Hook into Common Rails Mistakes, Process an Ox, drink some Oj, and watch RailsConf videos of a Monologue with Opee on this episode of Ruby5.