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Episode #315 - October 19th, 2012

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Today's Ruby5 brings you joy in the form of six expertly crafted stories about a new Ruby patch release, some mobile development how-to's, tips on healthy Rails projects and better specs, how to share staging like a grown-up, and a tour of Rails 4 features.

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

  • New Relic
  • Ruby 1.9.3 updated
  • oPRO for OAuth2
  • Healthy Rails Tips
  • Divergence
  • Better Specs
  • Rails 4 Tour
  • Ruby5

Better Specs Jump to Story

Better Specs has some RSpec guidelines for Ruby. This is a great list of useful tips for writing RSpec.

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