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Episode #48 - February 5, 2010

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The Caliper and Gemcutter integration, Crisis Camp Haiti, and MacRuby 0.5 are all discussed in this episode of Ruby5. Also, Bundler (Rails 3 beta!), the end of IE6 for Google, JQTouch, and HTML5 examples also made the cut. Also, you'll meet two new hosts, David Bock and Kim MacCormack.

This episode is sponsored by RubyNation. RubyNation is an annual tech conference presented by the Washington, DC Ruby community.

  • RubyNation
  • RIP IE6
  • Caliper-Gemcutter
  • Crisis Camp Haiti
  • JQTouch
  • MacRuby 0.5
  • Bundler 0.9.2
  • HTML5
  • Ruby5

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