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Episode #329 - December 11th, 2012

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This week we talk about a slew of new things coming in Rails 4, link_to_action and better_errors.

This episode is sponsored by Top Ruby Jobs. Everyone deserves to love their job (and it's probably in Ruby).

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Standard Rails error pages are a bore and not very easy to digest for beginners, this new gem by Charlie Somerville adds some nice styling to them, allows you to jump from the call stack to the source code of the relevant files with syntax highlighting and it even offers an inline REPL (Read-Execute-Print-Loop) to use as a debug console when things go wrong.

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It's Rails day as Heroku moves to Ruby 2.0, Rails 2.3's life is lingering, we build Awesome APIs, visit removing Views, cut back on Callbacks, expand our Environments, and tackle Changed Tests on this episode of Ruby5.

June 14th, 2013

Rails 4.0 rc2, Understanding the GIL, Font Awesome Rails, String Inquirer, and gist dep are all featured in this RubyLoco powered Ruby5

June 11th, 2013

RubyGems paranoia, unexpected chained scopes in Rails 4, Rubberband flamethrowers, Stripe with Rails, and efficient Git pairing.

June 7th, 2013

Interact with GitHub through Octokit, choosing a European payment gateway, importing and exporting databases with DbSync, pluck values from your tables, using ember-auth with Rails 3 and Authlogic, and field-level access control with Protector all in this episode of Ruby5!