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Episode #65 - April 6, 2010

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Phat, Watir, gemspecs, and exception2db are covered in this episode of Ruby5. Also, CSS sprites, the Rails 3 beta 2 release, and delayed job 2.0 are covered, as well.

This episode is sponsored by linguist. The fastest way to make your Rails applications multilingual.

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  • exception2db
  • CSS Sprites
  • 3.0.0beta2
  • Watir Web Bot
  • Phat Rails
  • DJ 2.0
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CSS Sprite Best Practices Jump to Story

Back in Episode #44, Nick and Jim covered auto_sprite. This week, there's another option, called css_sprite by Richard Huang. css_sprite uses convention over configuration and allows you to generate multiple sprite image files (and CSS files) per project. It'll even generate some SASS for you too, if that's your thing.

February 10, 2012

This episode we bootstrap your forms, stop unwanted browsers, give you a new mailview, deploy with a buildpack, introduce activeattr, and do some ruby trick shots.

February 7, 2012

Mechanize gets a Highscore while his Sidekiq fumbles trying to Manage his Bootstraps on this episode of Ruby5.

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.