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Episode #64 - April 2, 2010

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April Fools Day, Rails 3 Routes, Bot-Away, JSAwk & Resty, torturing github stats, and more in this edition of Ruby 5.

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

  • New Relic RPM
  • April Fools Filter
  • Routes Bundle
  • Rails 3 Routes
  • Express
  • Bot-Away
  • resty & jsawk
  • GemWhoIs
  • Graphing GitHub
  • Required
  • Ruby5

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Micha Niskin has written two great little tools for poking around restful web services from the command-line. If you have ever used curl to test a web service, or dumped curl output to a text file so you could tweak it, you should check these out.

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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.