October 18, 2009 at 6:00AM • 32 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 18, 2006.
The founders of BillMonk talk about building a community site with Rails, email as an API, and dynamically generated graphics.
Hosted by Brittany Martin.
October 17, 2009 at 3:15PM • 16 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 17, 2005.
Obie and Matt reflect on the whirlwind of long beards, huge slides, and curly brackets known as RubyConf.
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October 16, 2009 at 3:39PM
Episode #096. Dan Benjamin (Playgrounder, Hivelogic) is back this week. We each had some background noise and an awkward moment. But it's funny.
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Show Notes
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Following the move to Rackspace, Github has decided to stop building gems and instead recommends people move to Jeweler or Gemcutter. Old gems will be served for a year.
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Nick Quaranto walks through how Gem Bundler is going to work on the Litany Against Fear blog. Gem Bundler is going to be the default gem dependency resolver in Rails 3.
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David Palm has posted a tutorial for working with daemon-kit by Kenneth Kalmer. He walks through created a simple daemon with three worker processes and explains what daemon kit is doing each step of the way.
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The High Scalability blog has an article up covering Ravelry, a Rails site serving 10 million requests per day from Rails.
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Ilya Grigorik posts a walk through of using AMQP for messaging and its benefits.
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The CodeRack competition is a competition to develop the most useful and top quality Rack middlewares.
http://coderack.org/
http://www.rubyinside.com/21-rack-middlewares-2649.html
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Fred Wilson (AVC) posts about a new hosted Mongo DB service.
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Mark Bates, over on the Meta Bates blog, introduces Warp Drive which he describes as “what Rails Engines wish they could be, and more!” A Warp Drive is a standard, full featured, Rails application that you can easily bundle up into a Ruby Gem, and include into another Rails app.
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Nathan Esquenazi has posted some common cap recipes on his GitHub account. There are recipes for Ruby, Passenger, Memcache, DelayedJob and more.
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Justin Leitgeib walks through the architecture for his iPhone app SubwayDelay and outlines how he uses Sinatra and Tokyo Cabinet.
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Travis Dunn takes a look at one way of doing Web Hooks in your Rails app.
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Nathan Bibler's post about what's new in edge rails.
Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.
October 16, 2009 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 16 minutes
Puromac 153: Viajes, Snow Leopard , Flash y Apple Crece
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October 14, 2009 at 8:55PM
Macs are typically very reliable machines, but from time to time they can cause you trouble. In this episode, we discuss recommendations for identifying and fixing problems. We also discuss tips for keeping your Mac running smoothly and discuss more listner feedabck on our security episode. Links of Interest: Reboot a Mac with Terminal VersionTracker [...]
Hosted by David Sparks & Katie Floyd.
October 13, 2009 at 8:18AM
Solspace announces that they'll be dropping support for PHP 4 and IE6, a discussion with EE add-on developer and EE-podcast supporter, "Brandon Kelly":http://brandon-kelly.com, and the latest EE-related news.
Links for this episode:
- "EE Mobile Admin updated":http://www.revelatelabs.com/expressionengine/ee_mobile_admin/ to include support for masked Control Panel access, FieldFrame fieldtypes and more.
- "Edmonton, Canada Meetup":http://edmontonee.com/ will take place on October 24th. Win EE prizes like Ryan's "ExpressionEngine Screencasts":http://eescreencasts.com. If you have a meet-up scheduled, let the folks at EllisLab know about it. They'll post it to their site!
- Stephen Lewis posted his "final article in a series on EE and Git":http://experienceinternet.co.uk/blog/archive/using-git-with-expressionengine-part-4/. Started in June of this year, Lewis wrapped up the series with a fourth and final article.
- "Dan's article on Git and Capistrano":http://hivelogic.com/articles/deploying-expressionengine-github-capistrano
- "Publish Button":http://eeinsider.com/blog/publish-button-extension-saves-you-from-scrolling1/ extension displays the Submit buttons when they're out of view (from scrolling). A nice extension with great potential to become extremely annoying in day-to-day use.
- "Solspace is moving its add-ons to PHP 5":http://www.solspace.com/blog/entry/bidding_php_4_mysql_3_and_ie6_adieu. How does this impact you? What does long-time PHP developer Dan Benjamin think? We also talk to EE add-on developer Brandon Kelly to get his take.
Hosted by Lea Alcantara & Ryan Irelan.
October 11, 2009 at 8:00PM • 8 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 11, 2007.
Rails core member Michael Koziarski talks about Rails 2.0, the new patch process, and working on the core team.
From RailsConf in Berlin.
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October 9, 2009 at 12:30PM • 30 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 9, 2006.
A member of the rSpec team talks about Behavior Driven Development. From the offices of Bekk in Oslo, Norway.
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October 8, 2009 at 4:30PM • 10 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 8, 2008.
Wilson Bilkovich explains the recent rewrite of Rubinius.
Lars Pind discusses Coach TV, his new video blog on happiness and personal development for geeks.
Also mentioned
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October 8, 2009 at 12:31PM
Episode #095. Dan Benjamin (Playgrounder, Hivelogic) is back this week and we keep it quick while still packing in the news.
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Show Notes
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Request-log-analyzer 1.4.0.1, now with updated README and LICENSE.
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Unicorn is a HTTP server for Rack applications designed to take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels and only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully-buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.
http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix
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Rainbows! is a HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients.
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Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views.
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Dr. Nic walks through using his recently released install_theme to install html templates in to your rails app. It also supports haml.
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Matthew Moore put up a code quality check list for Rails apps and goes on to explain, in detail, every item.
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Gemcutter is the next generation of gem hosting for the Ruby community. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems. Become a contributor and enhance the site with your own changes.
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Ruby Inside has a swanky new look. Check it out.
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The RMagick project is looking for someone to take over maintenance. The project requires a moderately good C programmer who understands the Ruby C extension API and who is familiar with or is interested in becoming familiar with the ImageMagick MagickCore API. If you're interested email rmagick@rubyforge.org.
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The block_helpers gem generates helpers similar to the form-builders, but for the general case.
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Now Snow Leopard compatible! You can safely resume autotesting.
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Use an IRB console to control a robot!
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A captcha verification approach for Rails apps, directly integrated into ActiveRecord's validation mechanism and providing helpers for ActionController and ActionView.
Hosted by Jason Seifer & Dan Benjamin.
