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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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  • 3.0.0beta2
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  • Phat Rails
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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.

May 17th, 2013

Today's episode covers a major release for minitest, some JSON standards work, a tutorial on tagging with ActiveRecord and Postgres (plus an arduino to trigger the spray paint can), a RubyMotion tutorial and a little thing called CoVim that will blow your mind.

May 14th, 2013

From multi to native json, JoyBox hits 1.0, ContextValidations and FormObjects, teaching kids at KidsCodeCamp, Plataformatec gems, tab navigation with Tabulous 2 and Git Real 2 online course.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.

May 7th, 2013

We Adequackly cover RailsConf and free Rails 4 videos, Phusion Passenger 4.0.1, a Better STI approach, logging your Mail, and setting up a Rails 4 Server, all while releasing the Jekyll on this episode of Ruby5.