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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.

May 24th, 2013

An Intervention for ActiveRecord, Using Gems in RubyMtion, GemConfig, using Nested Attributes with BackBone, Lyricfy (sorry - Chris made me sing!), and a shoutout to Josh Kemp in this RubyLoco-Powered episode of Ruby5.

May 21st, 2013

Easier rules for class structure, ProMotion for RubyMotion, JSON APIs in Rails 4, concurrency with Futuroscope, ActiveRecord help via Searchlight, and internationalization with haml-i18n-extractor.

May 17th, 2013

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.