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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

Three Reasons for Resque Jump to Story

This is a good article explaining why the guys at Rails Machine, who have to support just about every job backgrounder out there, have chosen Resque for their own use. They do a good job of explaining 3 key points that make it better for them than delayedJob, but don’t really bash delayedJob in the process. If you have a project that needs background tasks, this should be required reading before you choose a tool.

June 18, 2013

It's Rails day as Heroku moves to Ruby 2.0, Rails 2.3's life is lingering, we build Awesome APIs, visit removing Views, cut back on Callbacks, expand our Environments, and tackle Changed Tests on this episode of Ruby5.

June 14th, 2013

Rails 4.0 rc2, Understanding the GIL, Font Awesome Rails, String Inquirer, and gist dep are all featured in this RubyLoco powered Ruby5

June 11th, 2013

RubyGems paranoia, unexpected chained scopes in Rails 4, Rubberband flamethrowers, Stripe with Rails, and efficient Git pairing.

June 7th, 2013

Interact with GitHub through Octokit, choosing a European payment gateway, importing and exporting databases with DbSync, pluck values from your tables, using ember-auth with Rails 3 and Authlogic, and field-level access control with Protector all in this episode of Ruby5!