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Episode #43 - January 19, 2010

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Managing music with Ruby, Arid Cache, and Navvy are featured on this episode of Ruby5. Also, Growling your SQL, Hammertime, and Who's Online with Redis are also covered.

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

  • New Relic RPM
  • Who's Online
  • iTunes and MacRuby
  • Rails Jukebox
  • Arid Cache
  • Hammertime
  • SQL Growl
  • Navvy
  • Ruby5 Co-Hosts
  • Ruby5

Navvy: Database Agnostic Background Jobs Jump to Story

Jeff Kreeftmeijer just released Navvy, an ORM agnostic background job processor for Ruby. It already has support for ActiveRecord, MongoMapper, and Sequel, and rolling your own wrapper for your ORM of choice is incredibly simple. So, if you're running something other than Rails or using a non-ActiveRecord store yet still want asynchronous job processing, this may be for you.

February 3rd, 2012

See who's in the office with snitch, generate api docs from your rspec suite, learn some cool vim tricks, improve your UI with bootstrap 2.0, and more in this episode of Ruby5!

January 31, 2012

In 3.2.1, we Devise a way to run Ruby 1.9.2 on Heroku, by using a 30% Faster Kookaburra that we Resqued during a recent trip Cross-Country - it's all in this episode of Ruby5.

January 27th, 2012

We weren't timely enough to get the news of the release of Rails 2.3.1, but we are still chock full of ruby news this week! The BitNami RailsStack installer, business_time, DCI education and commentary, Draper 1.1, theme-in-a-gem, Lisp in Ruby, wat, and Rails' Hidden Features in this feature-packed Ruby5.

January 24th, 2012

Rails 3.2 has barely arrived that Rails Tutorial teleports from the future. Meanwhile we get a nifty console for Test Unit, and millions of links become Google buddies thanks to sitemap_generator.