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Episode #74 - May 7, 2010

Wynn Netherland Gregg Pollack

Wynn Netherland joins Gregg live from Red Dirt Ruby Conference, where we get Analytical about doing test driven sysadmin with my Babushka, additing missing test helpers with Runningman, enjoying the extra speed with Cucumber 0.7, and doing the monster_mash while hacking voicemail, and editing a Tumblr theme with Thimblr.

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
• Analytical
• Tropo Voicemail
• Babushka
• Cucumber 0.7
• monster_mash
• Thimblr
• Runningman
• Ruby5

monster_mash

On Wednesday David Balatero released monster_mash, which provides a DSL help you build client APIs and do RESTful web service calls. Whatʼs interesting about monster_mash over other libraries is that it wraps the Typhoeus library, which means when you call out to web services you can make a blocking or non-blocking call.

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