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Episode #2 - August 17, 2009

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Today's episode covers a variety of topics from teaching Ruby as a first language to testing habits and A/B testing to bcrypt. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and if you've got any stories you'd like for us to cover, let us know at ruby5@envylabs.com.

This episode is sponsored by ScrumPad. ScrumPad is the next generation of Web-based Agile project management and collaboration.

  • ScrumPad
  • bcrypt-ruby
  • Rip
  • Subdomains
  • Teaching Ruby
  • A/Bingo
  • Ruby Testing
  • A Grand Piano

Rip & Gem Dependencies Jump to Story

James Adam wrote an article on Rip, and alternative package manager written by Chris Wanstrath. Rip allows you to isolate your Gem installations into sandboxes and only activate specific a specific group for a specific environment. Rip looks like it could be very useful for servers and developers which host a lot of separate applications.

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