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Episode #70 - April 23, 2010

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Saving neglected domain names, Census, Business Time, RIP Caliper and RunCodeRun, Minified Ruby Tweets, OAuth2 gem, Why you might want to use Resque, Rails3 Bug Mash, and Corey Haines' Code retreat, all on this edition of Ruby5.

This episode is sponsored by Red Dirt Ruby Conference. A unique, two-day conference that provides content and training in the most important areas of Ruby development.

  • Red Dirt Ruby Conference
  • Domain Name PSA
  • Census
  • Business Time
  • RIP
  • Tweeting Ruby Scripts
  • OAuth2
  • Resque Reasons
  • Resque Backoff
  • Weekend Events
  • Ruby5

Census Jump to Story

They guys at Envy Labs released a new gem this week (hey - I know them!).. Census is a rails gem that gives you everything you need to add a 'user poll' to your rails application. If you think this is something you might need to do someday, check out their sample app - you won't believe how easy it is to use.

May 24th, 2013

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.

May 21st, 2013

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.