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Episode #8 - September 8, 2009

Nathaniel Bibler Gregg Pollack

The Rails 2.3.4 release and security updates start off this Tuesday episode. We also cover Rails Magazine, memory bloat, Bullet, Fiscali, and a little bit of Ruby 1.9.

This episode is sponsored by ScrumPad. ScrumPad is the next generation of Web-based Agile project management and collaboration.

• ScrumPad
• Rails 2.3.4
• Passenger Pane
• Rails Magazine
• Bullet
• Memory
• Dates
• Fiscali
• Ruby5

The Bullet Plugin

Richard Huang wrote in to let us know about a new Rails plugin called Bullet. Bullet is designed to help increase your application's performance by monitoring your database queries. Specifically, it watches for places you either should or should not be using eager loading to optimize your application.

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