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Episode #8 - September 8, 2009

2df14bd29ca441a9d4656f0abae2e0ab Gregg Pollack 0d2bf6fbf141a1995560fa9273992ff0 Nathaniel Bibler

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

That's Not a Memory Leak, It's Bloat Jump to Story

Sudara Williams wrote up a great article over on the Engine Yard blog about how most of the memory issues they see with Rails originate with bad ActiveRecord usage. According to Sudara, Ruby tends to be greedy with memory, so creating an ActiveRecord collection with several thousand elements may permanently eat up your system's available memory.

September 3rd, 2010

Refinery, During Construction, Saki, Andriod SpyCam, JRuby on Rails3, Inploy, Bundler meets Capistrano, Rake-remote_Task, and cached commons are all featured on this episode of Ruby5

August 31, 2010

Rails 3 has been released, memcached received a new Ruby library, and RubyDoc.info is in your RubyGems generating your YARD docs. Also, API versioning, extended transaction support, tutorials and more are on this episode of Ruby5.

August 27, 2010

A nice grab bag for this episode: resque_action_mailer_backend, Swift ORM, Upload Juicer, Ruby 1.9.2 debugging problems, Rails 3 RC2, and Frivol.

August 24, 2010

Azebiki, RVM's 1.0 release, home_run, Prowly, and Wrong are all covered on this episode of Ruby5. It feels so right, how can it be wrong?