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Episode #75 - May 11, 2010

Nathaniel Bibler Gregg Pollack

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

Inside Ruby on Rails Reading Source Code

Simone Carletti dropped us a line this week to let us know about his ongoing blog series entitled "Inside Ruby on Rails: Reading Source Code." So far, the series has five articles covering Ruby coding techniques that he's learned from reading the Rails source. The topics covered include extract_options, benchmarking, Delegate, rescue_from, and serializing using JSON.

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