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Episode #272 - May 15th, 2012

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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.

This episode is sponsored by Harvest. Harvest is a painless time tracking and invoicing Rails app, used by the most innovative teams in over 100 countries worldwide.

  • Harvest
  • meta_types
  • Multiple Ruby
  • Libskypekit & Skypekit
  • Duplication
  • Gem building process
  • Bookshop
  • Code School
  • Ruby5

Libskypekit & Skypekit Jump to Story

Skype, the VoIP application has a developer API that will allow you to interface with the native desktop Skype app, and another one that uses the SkypeKit runtime to basically giving you a headless Skype application. You can program it to make or receives calls or instant messages through the Skype platform and setup video conferencing. Andriy Yanko from Railsware just released a Gem using Foreign Function Interface (FFI) to communicate with SkypeKit so you can build apps using Skype.

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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.

May 7th, 2013

We Adequackly cover RailsConf and free Rails 4 videos, Phusion Passenger 4.0.1, a Better STI approach, logging your Mail, and setting up a Rails 4 Server, all while releasing the Jekyll on this episode of Ruby5.