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Episode #26 - November 10, 2009

Nathaniel Bibler Gregg Pollack

Heard of Redis? In this episode we cover how you can use it in your application and how GitHub uses it for Resque. Heroku Asset Packager, mail_safe, and JSBlogger are also covered, along with why you should use conditionals rather than exceptions.

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• Jumpstart Lab
• Twitter Filter
• Resque
• Heroku Assets
• Mail Safe
• Ruby Exceptions
• JSBlogger
• Ruby5

Building a Twitter Filter

Mirko Froehlich documented his approach to building a Twitter status filter using Sinatra, Redis, and Tweetstream - Twitter's new streaming API. It's interesting to note that he went with Redis because of its native support for ordered list storage. Is Redis the new memcached?

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