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Episode #67 - April 13, 2010

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Memprof, Candy, and Boost::Regexp are all covered on this episode of Ruby5. We also talk about parallel testing with Hydra and the Camping 2.0 release.

This episode is sponsored by Frozen Rails. The most authoritative Rails conference in Europe this year.

  • Frozen Rails
  • Memprof
  • Camping 2.0
  • Hydra
  • Boost::Regex
  • Want It? Give.
  • Candy
  • Ruby5

Boost::Regexp - A Faster Regexp Jump to Story

Michael Edgar recently took the time to port the peer-reviewed, open source C++ Boost.Regexp library to Ruby. The hope was that the Ruby Boost::Regexp, while staying API-compatible, might out-perform the conventional implementations in Ruby 1.8 and/or 1.9. And, with his recent benchmarks, it appears as though it has.

May 22th, 2012

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.