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Episode #348 – February 26, 2013

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Ruby 2.0! 2.0!! Also, RubyInstaller has been updated to include Ruby 2.0!!! Refinements are in Ruby 2.0!!!! Artoo, RubyFriendsCamera, and Cached Counts Gem are not in Ruby 2.0 but they are in this episode of Ruby5!!!!!

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

  • TopRubyJobs
  • Ruby 2.0
  • Artoo
  • RubyInstaller
  • RubyFriendsCamera
  • Cached Counts
  • Refinements
  • Ruby5

Cached Counts Jump to Story

"count()" operations in SQL can get a little slow on big tables. Mario Visic has released a new gem that adds support to the ActiveRecord::Relation class for caching the result of "count()" operations.

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.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.