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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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  • ruby-noise
  • representable
  • annotator
  • simple workflow
  • money-rails
  • Ruby5

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This is a 'glue' gem that integrates the Money gem with your ActiveRecord models. You can have dollar amounts associated with your models, and have them stored as different currencies. If you provide exchange rates, it'll even convert the values for you.

June 14th, 2013

Rails 4.0 rc2, Understanding the GIL, Font Awesome Rails, String Inquirer, and gist dep are all featured in this RubyLoco powered Ruby5

June 11th, 2013

RubyGems paranoia, unexpected chained scopes in Rails 4, Rubberband flamethrowers, Stripe with Rails, and efficient Git pairing.

June 7th, 2013

Interact with GitHub through Octokit, choosing a European payment gateway, importing and exporting databases with DbSync, pluck values from your tables, using ember-auth with Rails 3 and Authlogic, and field-level access control with Protector all in this episode of Ruby5!

June 4th, 2013

Wiselinks ... Code Smells ... Step by Step Rails ... Wrapping a C library in Ruby ... rack-showme ... ORUCO Streaming