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Episode #344 - February 12th, 2013

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Gregg & Aimee kick off this week with Rails security issues, intro to State Machine, stabby lambda, heat maps, sucker punch, immutable tree structures, and finally we announce the Ruby Hero Awards.

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

  • TopRubyJobs
  • Rails Security
  • State Machine
  • Scopes vs Class
  • Heat Maps
  • Sucker Punch
  • Immutable Trees
  • Ruby Heroes
  • Ruby5

Active Record scopes vs class methods Jump to Story

In Rails 4, as you may know, we all need to start using the Stabby Lambda (->). However, this makes scopes even more similar to plain old class methods. Carlos Antonio wrote up a great blog post comparing the two.

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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.

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

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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!