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Episode #72 - April 30, 2010

Gregg Pollack Carlos Souza

This friday episode Caike and Gregg visit Dr. X and discuss MetaWhere, Cinch, Stalker, RubyBuntu, text algorithms, and the awesome office dashboard - Sonia.

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
• RubyBuntu
• Cinch
• MetaWhere
• DrX
• Stalker
• text
• Sonia
• Ruby5

Introducing MetaWhere

The arel library from Rails 3 gives us a great new syntax for creating queries. Under the covers arel converts your where conditions into sql is by using something called a PredicateBuilder. Ernie Miller recently put out a plugin called MetaWhere that takes advantage of these PredicateBuilders to give arel even more functionality.

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