December 18, 2009 at 4:58PM
Episode #103 Dan edition.
Show Notes
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Rails 2.3.5 has been released with several bug fixes and improved Ruby 1.9 compatibility.
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Koz has released the rails xss plugin which makes all strings html unsafe by default and uses Erubis for templating.
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ConFreaks has posted the 2009 RubyConf videos.
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Speedy automates the virtual host creation and gives you rapid deployment with Passenger and Apache. It currently works on Ubuntu and Debian variants only. It will eventually support both Linux and Mac platforms.
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A draft of the Ruby Specification document has been released and they're looking for comments to submit to the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee. The draft is based on Ruby 1.8.7.
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Grant Michaels posts on Ruby Inside about Rango, a new web app framework from Jakub Šťastný.
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Flotomatic is a new Rails plugin built on top of flot (jquery / javascript based graphs). It's got a nice DSL that makes it really easy to drop graphs into your site.
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Partioprint plugin adds partial name as a HTML comment whenever a partial is rendered from the ERBs.
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Viewtastic is a presenter plugin for Rails.
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The Finternails in Oatmeal blog has a post about using Authlogic to create an unobtrusive login system.
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The Usware blog has a post on getting in to the Django way of doing things from a Rails developers point of view.
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ActiveDevice is a rails plugin that detects mobile device user agents and sets the format accordingly.
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Rubinius 1.0 rc1 has been released.
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This post by Peter Cooper aims to round up a selection of his recent Ruby library discoveries, with his thoughts about each. Included are RConfig – Powerful Ruby configuration management, Ruby-GMail – A Rubyesque interface to GMail, Versionomy – A “version number” library.

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December 17, 2009 at 12:45PM • 21 minutes
This episode was originally published on December 17, 2005.
Rick Olson explains the Rails plugin system, RJS templates, and Rails-weenie.
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December 17, 2009 at 8:00AM
Adam and Wynn spoke with Mike Dirolf from 10gen about their fast-growing MongoDB project. Mike gave us insight on how MongoDB came about, design decisions, and the future of this cool NoSQL server.
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December 16, 2009 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 6 minutes
Puromac 160: Google compite con Apple ? Problemas con iMacs, Boxee en la red
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December 15, 2009 at 8:00AM
In this episode, Adam, Wynn, and Steven Bristol of LessEverything fame discuss Erlang, Javascript on the server, Lighthouse, Docsplit, Rackamole/whackamole, unfollowing under-performing Twitter peeps, and suing domain squatters.
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December 15, 2009 at 7:28AM
Ryan and Dan give you the skinny on ExpressionEngine 2.0. They discuss some new features, integration issues, upgrade paths, and more.
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December 11, 2009 at 8:45PM
We got a lot of feedback about episode 5 Word Processing and Writing, apparently people just keep looking for better word processors. So, we decided to do another show on a single application, Scrivener. Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool that allows you to research, organize, outline and create documents. The emphasis [...]
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December 11, 2009 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 1 minute
Puromac 159: LALA, Puromac en Buenos Aires, info encriptada en disco y muchos saludos
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December 7, 2009 at 10:30PM • 37 minutes
This episode was originally published on December 7, 2007.
James Cox, former PHP team member and current Rails consultant. From London.
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December 7, 2009 at 10:42AM
Episode #102 Introducing Fancy Buttons! Also check out @railstips on Twitter.
Show Notes
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Peter Cooper writes about the recently released MagLev alpha over on the Ruby Inside blog.
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Phusion has released passenger version 2.2.7 which includes many bug fixes.
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David posts on the Viget Labs blog about doing HTML sanitization in the Markdown library.
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Sass now has native support for all Rack-based frameworks.
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Brandon Mathis has released Fancy Buttons, a SASS plugin to give you great looking semantic buttons.
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Amp is a version control system written in Ruby. It currently supports Mercurial.
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A uniquely powerful Ruby parser for Temporal Expressions. Type out your recurring time patterns in plain english, and the computer can understand it.
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Antonio Cangiano has written a tutorial on getting a production Rails stack up and running on Ubuntu.
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Caliper is hosted Ruby Metrics from the Devver crew.
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Reflection is designed to keep your development system in sync with your production system's files and database (by dumping). It uses a shared git repository to store these files, which allows you to mirror your production environment without the need of direct access to your production servers.
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Michael Grosser has released easy esi, which lets you render partials using ESI. This allows you to have cached pages with dynamic partials.
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rails_best_practices is a gem to check quality of rails app files according to ihower's presentation Rails Best Practices from Kungfu RailsConf in Shanghai China.
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Matt Allen sent along word that Dan Neighman has created fully mountable nested rack applications called pancake stacks.

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