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Episode #318 - October 30th, 2012

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Passenger 4 beta, new Rails 4 features, some great Ruby learning resources and more!

This episode is sponsored by Gaslight Software. Learn backbone, coffeescript, and jasmine in SF, December 3-5.

  • Mastering Backbone
  • Passenger 4 B1
  • Turbolinks
  • Ruby Sockets
  • Metrika
  • Strong Parameters
  • Open Source
  • Under a Microscope
  • Ruby Bits 2
  • Ruby5

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Igor Alexandrov wrote us an email yesterday to let us know about Metrika, a Ruby wrapper for the Yandex Metrika API. Apparently, Yandex... which I’ve never heard of... runs the most popular search engine in Russia, and Metrika appears to be their version of Google Analytics, with a bunch of additional features. With the Ruby wrapper, you can very easily create, view, and delete any sort of webpage counters, goals, or filters.. and get all sorts of statistics on your traffic.

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.