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Episode #97 - July 27, 2010

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Ilya Grigorik talks Fibers, while fake_arel, Rack-Gist, and Coloration get introduced. Also, Choco and some helpful Git tips sneak their way into this episode of Ruby5.

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  • fake_arel
  • Best Practices
  • Choco
  • Coloration
  • Ilya Grigorik
  • Git Tips
  • Rack-Gist
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Get an early taste of the Arel goodness with fake_arel Jump to Story

If you don't want to wait until the official release of Rails 3, but are anxious to sink your teeth into the juicy Arel goodness, Grant Ammons recently released fake_arel. With it, you'll get the syntactic sugar and method chaining of Arel in Rails 2, while using calls that are Rails 3-compatible.

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.