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Episode #6 - September 1, 2009

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Blue Ridge, FunFX and Cucumber, and unit testing your file system interactions round out today's episode - which is obviously a little test-heavy. We also talk about obeying robots.txt, Snow Leopard, and more.

This episode is sponsored by ScrumPad. ScrumPad is the next generation of Web-based Agile project management and collaboration.

  • ScrumPad
  • Blue Ridge
  • FunFx
  • File System
  • robots.txt
  • Resources
  • Returning
  • Snow Leopard
  • Ruby5

Upgrading to Snow Leopard Jump to Story

You may run into some issues and gotchas when upgrading to Snow Leopard. With some of the lower-level changes to the 64-bit infrastructure, there are some things you may need to know if you're planning on making the move. Matt Aimonetti added an entry to the official Rails blog with some information about the process, specifically targeting Rails developers.

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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.

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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.