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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

Business Time Jump to Story

The guys at CodeSherpas (hey - I know them too!) also released a gem this week - Business Time. Have you ever wants to say things like 3.business_days.ago and have it take into account weekends, or 4.business_hours.after(friday_afternoon) and have it take into account the start and end of your client's workday? Now you can, and all the scary math is done for you.

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.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.

May 7th, 2013

We Adequackly cover RailsConf and free Rails 4 videos, Phusion Passenger 4.0.1, a Better STI approach, logging your Mail, and setting up a Rails 4 Server, all while releasing the Jekyll on this episode of Ruby5.