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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.

  • linguist
  • gemspec
  • exception2db
  • CSS Sprites
  • 3.0.0beta2
  • Watir Web Bot
  • Phat Rails
  • DJ 2.0
  • Ruby5

How To Write Your First Ruby Web Bot in Watir Jump to Story

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.

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An Intervention for ActiveRecord, Using Gems in RubyMtion, GemConfig, using Nested Attributes with BackBone, Lyricfy (sorry - Chris made me sing!), and a shoutout to Josh Kemp in this RubyLoco-Powered episode of Ruby5.

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Easier rules for class structure, ProMotion for RubyMotion, JSON APIs in Rails 4, concurrency with Futuroscope, ActiveRecord help via Searchlight, and internationalization with haml-i18n-extractor.

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.