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Episode #63 - March 30, 2010

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Ruby Heroes, Rack::Legacy, ubiquo, and Supermodel are featured on this episode of Ruby5. Also, the Ruby Summer of Code has reached $100,000 and Rick Olson talks LOAD_PATHs.

This episode is sponsored by Frozen Rails. The most authoritative Rails conference in Europe this year.

  • Frozen Rails
  • $100,000
  • Supermodel
  • LOAD_PATH
  • Rack::Legacy
  • ubiquo
  • Ruby Heroes
  • Ruby5

Rack::Legacy - Run Your Rubies in a Bad Neighborhood Jump to Story

On some projects, you just can't get away from legacy code. And for some people, that legacy is more like a bad memory, taking the form of PHP. If you're in this situation, you may be interested to know that Eric Anderson recently released Rack::Legacy which allows you to run PHP (or CGI) code right along side your Rack-compatible application. No more need to modify your Apache configuration.

May 22th, 2012

Dimension your Rails under a microscope, Open the struct2 for ActiveRecord reputation, and assign values to a figleaf.

May 20th, 2012

Devise 2.1, running your uncommitted rspecs, feeling dirty with soap, grabbing data out of Google spreadsheets, and more in this edition of Ruby5

May 15th, 2012

We look at easier schema-less hstore on Postgres, Ruby versions in your Gemfile, and Skype in your app. We learn how to DRY better, build a Gem from scratch, build a book without scratching yourself and how to binge on Code School for free.

May 11th, 2012

Bootstrapping young JS framework released, poppin BubbleWrap, internationalizing with alchemy, mixins and refactoring, hanging out at Rpub, and a rack middleware for contact importing.