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Episode #295 - August 7th, 2012

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This episode marks the 3 year anniversary of Ruby5, thank you all for listening. Today we cover api_taster, overriding instance method with module, more Rails 4 live streaming, event tracking, checker gem, and legacy systems.

This episode is sponsored by Semaphore. A hosted continuous integration service built for speed and simplicity.

  • Semaphore
  • api_taster
  • Overriding Instance
  • Live Streaming
  • event tracking
  • Checker Gem
  • Legacy Systems
  • Ruby5

Legacy Systems on Rails Jump to Story

Jason Lewis recently started writing a series of Rails blog posts on Legacy Systems on Rails. In his first post he uses a mix of the ActiveRecord API and some meta programming to do some pretty crazy attribute mapping onto his application models to work with a Legacy database. Definitely keep an eye out if you're in his shoes.

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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.