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Episode #281 - June 15th, 2012

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Tribune Company open sources eight gems … New “Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots” podcast from thoughtbot … Grocer: another APNS gem … BubbleWrap: Cocoa wrappers and helpers for RubyMotion … Early access to “Confident Ruby” e-book … 25 things you need to know about Backbone and Rails

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

  • New Relic
  • Gems from Tribune
  • thoughtbot podcast
  • Grocer gem
  • BubbleWrap.io
  • Confident Ruby e-book
  • Backbone.js and Rails
  • Ruby5

Tribune Company Open Sources Eight Gems Jump to Story

The Tribune Company just open-sourced eight of their gems.
  • sql safety net - hooks into ActiveRecord to analyze SQL queries.
  • cobranding - allows you too pull marked up HTML from a URL and use it as a layout in a Rails view.
  • add http header - provides Rack middleware which adds an http header to the response.
  • active record cache - provides a caching layer to ActiveRecord models
  • is it working - provides a mechanism for setting up a Rack handler that tests the status of various components of an application and reports the output
  • super awesome resource serializer - powerful object serialization
  • sort by field - provides sorting by fields to arrays and enumerable objects
  • path tree - provides support for creating tree data structures.

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