November 21, 2009 at 3:15AM • 30 minutes
This episode was originally published on November 21, 2006.
A chat with the members of EdgeCase, a Ruby consulting firm in Columbus, Ohio.
Hosted by Brittany Martin.
November 20, 2009 at 8:53PM
In this episode we talk about tips and tricks when buying and selling Macs. Whether you’re a switcher buying your very first Mac, or a seasoned Mac user looking to sell an old machine, we’ve got your covered. We’ll help you figure out what accessories you need to complete your new Mac purchase, and where [...]
Hosted by David Sparks & Katie Floyd.
November 20, 2009 at 11:05AM
Episode #101 Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!
Show Notes
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Torquebox is an enterprise-grade application server that provides scale-oriented services to your Ruby webapps, including turn-key clustering. With its latest release, Torquebox supports all Rack-based Ruby frameworks.
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Yehuda Katz has an in-depth blog post explaining self's scope in Ruby.
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Skills Matter will be organising the 3rd annual RoR eXchange on 3rd December 2009.
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Racksh is a Rails-like console for any Rack based ruby web app.
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Vinsol goes over their checklist for deploying Rails apps.
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Jammit is an industrial strength asset packaging library for Rails, providing both the CSS and JavaScript concatenation and compression that you'd expect, as well as ahead-of-time gzipping, built-in JavaScript template support, and optional Data-URI / MHTML image embedding.
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Part 1 in a series that will delve deep into several commonly used methods of Rails.
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ShardTheLove is a horizontal scaling solution written in Ruby. It has support for migrations, testing/RSpec, a flexibility of partitioning patterns, a simple syntax, support for Rails & Merb
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Sam Merritt posts on the Engine Yard blog about getting the new Rubygems bundler working in your app.
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Francisco Tufró has released environmental seeder — a simple addition to db:seed to allow loading environment specific data through seeds.rb without
any programming.
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Rubinius 0.13 has been released with several rewrites, additions, and fixes.
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Justin French has released formtastic 0.9.2. From the blog post:
I've just pushed the new Formtastic 0.9.2 gem up to Gemcutter this morning on the train. There's a few API changes as we edge closer and closer 1.0, so I thought I'd do a quick post to document it all.
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MacRuby 0.5 beta 2 has been released.
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Request Log Analayzer version 1.5.1 has been released with new features and bug fixes. This is the first time we have ever mentioned it on the show.
Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.
November 20, 2009 at 7:27AM
In the eighth episode of the EE Podcast Dan and Ryan answer listener emails. They cover topics like site deployment, what to expect moving to from EE 1.6.8 to EE 2.0 and a handy extension to redirect after submitting an entry.
Link for this episode:
- "Entry REEdirect":http://github.com/amphibian/ext.entry_reedirect.ee_addon extension by
- "Official ExpressionEngine 2.0 information page":http://expressionengine.com/ee2_sneak_preview/.
- "Deploying ExpressionEngine from GitHub with Capistrano":http://hivelogic.com/articles/deploying-expressionengine-github-capistrano by Dan Benjamin.
- "Creating a Robust Config.php File":http://eeinsider.com/articles/creating-a-robust-config.php-file/ by Ryan Irelan.
Hosted by Lea Alcantara & Ryan Irelan.
November 19, 2009 at 8:00AM
Wynn and Adam discuss Haml, Sass and Compass with the core developers Nathan Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein.
Hosted by Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo.
November 17, 2009 at 12:15AM • 8 minutes
This episode was originally published on November 17, 2007.
Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way.
From RubyConf in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hosted by Brittany Martin.
November 13, 2009 at 4:43PM
Episode #100: Mustache edition. And hey, it's episode 100!
Show Notes
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JRuby 1.4 has been released. New in this version is a native launcher for JRuby on Windows.
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Chris Parsons and Corey Haines release the katacasts blog and video cast. Software Craftsmanship Katas is a place dedicated to promote screencasts of coding katas to a wide audience of people interested in seeing other craftsmen perform a given kata.
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JetBrains has released RubyMine 2.0 release candidate
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Dr Nic has taken over this gem! This release moves over to GemCutter and adds issue page integration.
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This is a Rack Middleware which will find and send static files provided by loaded gems.
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Nick Seiger releases HPricot 0.8.2 with bug fixes and a JRuby bug fix.
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The pivotal labs gang are growing mustaches for charity!
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This is asset packager for Heroku, which only supports a read only file system.
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Andre over on the Scout blog shows a neat technique for tracking goals with Google Analytics and Rails.
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Andy Jeffries goes over a technique for debugging a single request on a production app.
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Eric Lindvall goes over how he finally solved the memory leak in god.
Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.
November 13, 2009 at 7:27AM
In episode seven of the EE Podcast, Dan and Ryan cover the latest ExpressionEngine news, the good and bad of the Structure module and put out a call to action for a new plugin to support Twitter search.
Links for this episode:
- Continuing the trend started by Brandon Kelly, "Lodewijk Schutte":http://loweblog.com/freelance/article/ee20-addon-roadmap/ (Low) published his EE add-on roadmap.
- Do you develop EE add-ons? Will you be porting them to 2.0? If so, you want to be "listed on this special Devot-ee page":http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/ee2/.
- EE Insider published a special bonus interview with Derek Allark of EllisLab. "Derek talks about CodeIgniter":http://eeinsider.com/blog/ee-2-week-straggler-the-return-of-derek-allard-interview/ today, in the future and how it ties into ExpressionEngine 2.0.
- "Structure 2.0 was released":http://eeinsider.com/blog/structure-2-released/ late last week. It's a significant update to the original, free version.
- Speaking of Structure, if you're like me, you want your clients to use the Structure interface for managing the website. Chad Crowell published a simple plugin, "WI Direct to Structure":http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/134161/ that redirects you to the Structure page whenever you add or update an entry.
Hosted by Lea Alcantara & Ryan Irelan.
