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Episode #70 - April 23, 2010

Kim MacCormack David Bock

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

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.

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