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Episode #68 - April 16, 2010

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In this episode, Rocketeers Les and Paul cover automating heroku database backups, the reasoning behind bundler, the FlockDB client, IronRuby 1.0, Show Off!, the Pure RSpec talk, Learning Git, and Redwood.

This episode is sponsored by New Relic. New Relic gives you performance monitoring, tracking, and reporting of your web applications.

  • NewRelic RPM
  • Heroku DB Backups
  • Bundler Explained!
  • FlockDB Client
  • IronRuby 1.0
  • Show Off!
  • Pure RSpec
  • Simple Git Workflow
  • Redwood
  • Ruby5

Pure RSpec Jump to Story

Jon Larkowski created his Pure Rspec presentation on Show Off! and made it publicly available. It is a great overview of the latest features and syntax of RSpec.

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