The Ruby Show #106: Making Up Words

February 3, 2010 at 7:31PM

In this episode, Dan and Jason have fun making up words and also report on the latest with MacRuby, Rails 3, and more.

Red Dirt Ruby Conf is a unique two-day conference that provides focused, up-to-date content and related training in four of the most important areas of active development in Ruby. Oklahoma City, May 6-7th, 2010.

The Ruby Show is brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. Check them out at NewRelic.com.

Show Notes

• MacRuby 0.5 Released
• GemCutter Update
• GMoney – A RubyGem for Interacting with the Google Finance API
• Rails 3 Online Conference
• From Zero to Rails3 on Windows in 600 seconds
• Unobtrusive JS In Rails 3 With Prototype
• validates :rails_3, :awesome => true
• rails-upgrade is now an official plugin
• Delayed_paperclip

Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.

EE Podcast #10: Behind the Scenes at Playgrounder

February 3, 2010 at 10:55AM

We're back! Due to schedule conflicts and the holidays, the EE Podcast is back with another episode packed full of EE goodies.

In this episode, Dan and Ryan talk about Playgrounder.com, a site Dan built, covering all of the latest and greatest toys and gear for kids. We cover the add-ons he used and a couple of tricks to make the site work without heavy customization.

• "Playgrounder":http://playgrounder.com
• "FF Checkbox":http://brandon-kelly.com/fieldframe/docs/ff-checkbox
• "Age Range page":http://playgrounder.com/age/2-4
• "Sneaky Uses for for Everything Thing":http://playgrounder.com/stuff/learning/books/sneaky-uses-for-everyday-things (sample entry for categories in URLs)
• Hack the URL and get redirected to a category page: "http://playgrounder.com/stuff/learning/books":http://playgrounder.com/stuff/learning/books

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Hosted by Lea Alcantara & Ryan Irelan.

The Changelog #12: Gordon is such a Showoff

February 3, 2010 at 8:00AM

Adam and Wynn continued chatting with John Nunemaker about some recent featured projects including Gordon, Showoff, jQuery Lint, JSpec, congomongo and more.

Hosted by Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo.

The Pipeline OLD #1: Jeffrey Zeldman

February 1, 2010 at 11:44AM

Dan Benjamin interviews Jeffrey Zeldman, designer, founder of ALA. They discuss the evolution of the internet, the web, web standards, Happy Cog, A List Apart, An Event Apart, and something new: A Book Apart.

Hosted by Dan Benjamin.

Mac Power Users #18: Managing The Onslaught

January 30, 2010 at 7:42AM

The daily barage of links, feeds, and e-mail sites can become overwhelming. In this episode, David and Katie talk about managing the the daily flood of data using RSS, Instapaper, and other solutions. Links of Interest NetNewsWire NewsFire Fever Google Reader Instapaper LongReads iPhone Newsreaders of Note MobileRSS ByLine NetNewsWire This episode was sponsored by:.

Hosted by David Sparks & Katie Floyd.

The Conversation #1: Heritage iPad

January 29, 2010 at 7:50PM

In the premier episode of The Conversation, Dan is joined by Craig Hockenberry, Christina Warren, Dan Moren, David Nanian, Ryan Schwartz, Ryan Irelan, to discuss the iPad, Heritage Dr. Pepper, and much more.

Hosted by Dan Benjamin with special guests Christina Warren & Dan Moren.

The Ruby Show #105: Average Size

January 29, 2010 at 8:39AM

In this episode, Dan and Jason bring you a ton of news and keep it short and sweet.

The Ruby Show is brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. Check them out at NewRelic.com.

Show Notes

• Are you testing your attr_* methods? If you do, then you might want to clean up your specs with RSpec attr extensions.
• JRuby for Android JRuby for Android is an application that provides a JRuby scripting environment for Android, including an IRB shell, source code editor and script manager.
• Rakegrowl rakegrowl tells you when your rake tasks end via Growl.
• Conversational and short URLs on Rails Jason Lyons has a post on the Carsonified blog about how to generate conversational URLs in Rails such as /events/in/chicago.
• Polymorphic association support added to searchlogic
• Active Record Query Interface 3.0 Pratik Naik goes over the new query interface and deprecations in Active Record 3.0.
• Getting Up To Speed with Rails 3 Gabe da Silveira walks through getting an app updated and on to Rails 3.
• The Path to Rails 3: Approaching the upgrade Jeremy McAnally posts about upgrading to Rails 3 and the changes involved.
• New ActionMailer API in Rails 3.0
• Vanity Vanity is an Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails.
• Interview with Matz InfoQ has an interview with Matz about Ruby, Functional Programming and Programming Languages Design.
• A Simple Pattern for Ruby's inject method
• WTF The WTF gem provides a Ruby class to convert between standard time and World Time Format.

Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.

The Changelog #11: John Nunemaker from Ordered List, RailsTips.org, and MongoMapper

January 29, 2010 at 8:00AM

Adam and Wynn caught up with John Nunemaker from Ordered List to chat about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life.

Hosted by Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo.

The Cocktail Napkin #16: Poisonous Advice

January 28, 2010 at 12:00PM • Video

Creative Directors that are more interested in money or fame than creating good work are apt to give poisonous advice. In this episode, I shed the last pounds of mental baggage left by some of those people.

Hosted by Jeremy Fuksa.

Puromac #165: Puromac 165: Apple presenta las iPads

January 28, 2010 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 11 minutes

Puromac 165: Apple presenta las iPads

Hosted by Flavio Guinsburg.