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Episode #75 - May 11, 2010

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RDropbox, resque_unit, and Asset Fingerprint are on this episode of Ruby5. Also, QActiveResource, Munin, and Inside Ruby on Rails make an appearance, as well.

This episode is sponsored by BizConf. An exclusive conference for entrepreneurs, thought leaders, startup founders, and consultants.

  • BizConf
  • Graphing with Munin
  • Faster ActiveResource
  • Inside RoR
  • resque_unit
  • Broken Assets
  • RDropbox
  • Ruby5

Making ActiveResource 34x Faster Jump to Story

Scott Wheeler, on Directed Edge, just wrote up and released his new gem, called QActiveResource. It's an ActiveResource extension that utilizes customer C++ Qt extensions to process XML, outperforming the default AR parser and even Nokogiri. The source code, benchmark suite, and results are all available on GitHub.

May 22th, 2012

Dimension your Rails under a microscope, Open the struct2 for ActiveRecord reputation, and assign values to a figleaf.

May 20th, 2012

Devise 2.1, running your uncommitted rspecs, feeling dirty with soap, grabbing data out of Google spreadsheets, and more in this edition of Ruby5

May 15th, 2012

We look at easier schema-less hstore on Postgres, Ruby versions in your Gemfile, and Skype in your app. We learn how to DRY better, build a Gem from scratch, build a book without scratching yourself and how to binge on Code School for free.

May 11th, 2012

Bootstrapping young JS framework released, poppin BubbleWrap, internationalizing with alchemy, mixins and refactoring, hanging out at Rpub, and a rack middleware for contact importing.