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Episode #283 - June 22nd, 2012

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Better late than never, June 22nd's episode is live, featuring stories about gems, blog entries, and even the occasional Javascript cat-face-recognition tool.

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

  • New Relic
  • rails-bestpractices
  • Representable
  • Rack Canonical Host
  • postgres_ext
  • opro
  • spin.js
  • redpomo
  • knife-solo
  • kittydar
  • Ruby5

Representable Jump to Story

We mentioned Representable a few weeks ago as well, so its worth mentioning some updates. Changes include better handling of nil and false values, and the ability to represent a hash as a series of attributes on an xml element. Some of the changes are potentially api-breaking though, so upgrade with care!

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.

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.