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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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  • gemspec
  • exception2db
  • CSS Sprites
  • 3.0.0beta2
  • Watir Web Bot
  • Phat Rails
  • DJ 2.0
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Watir, the web browser automation library traditionally used for more thorough integration testing, has recently been re-purposed. Darrin Demchuk over on Layered Thoughts created a detailed write up how to use Watir to create a web bot (or crawler). He walks you through step-by-step automating data collection from weather.com and utilizing Nokogiri for parsing.

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.