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Episode #277 - June 1st, 2012

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A recap of a couple of fun 'you got your music in my ruby' tools, a few gem updates, and a few useful gems to add to your toolbox on this edition of Ruby5. We recorded before the announcement, but its worth noting that Rails 3.2.5 was released last night.

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

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Another entry in the 'lets add the database schema to the model as comments' series of gems, this one has a neat feature - you can add comments describing the purpose of a field, and they will be preserved if you need to re-run the rake task that creates the annotation.

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