Important inaccuracy in this week’s show: We have misrepresented Bryan Liles as having written the dm-is-schemaless plugin when, in fact, it’s actually Bryan Smith. Sorry guys!

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Show Notes

• Gemcutter will become default host for gems

  Gemcutter will become the default for Ruby gems. They hope to complete the transition by Rubyconf. The new address will be http://rubygems.org and migration paths are being worked out.

• Rails in a nutshell

  Rails in a Nutshell is a concise introduction to Rails, an overview of commands and configurations, and a guide to the parts of Rails you’ll be using every day. It’s written by Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding, and John Guenin. It’s a beta book and you can comment on every paragraph.

• Devise is a new authentication gem for Rails

  Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden. It’s Rack based, is a complete MVC solution based on Rails engines, allows you to have multiple roles (or models/scopes) signed in at the same time, and is based on a modularity concept: use just what you really need. There’s also an example app available.

  http://github.com/plataformatec/devise/
  http://github.com/plataformatec/devise_example/

• Ancestry 1.1.0 Released

  Ancestry allows the records of a ActiveRecord model to be organised as a tree structure, using a single, intuitively formatted database column, using a variation on the materialised path pattern. It exposes all the standard tree structure relations (ancestors, parent, root, children, siblings, descendants) and all of them can be fetched in a single sql query. Additional features are named_scopes, integrity checking, integrity restoration, arrangement of (sub)tree into hashes and different strategies for dealing with orphaned records.

  Version 1.1.0 Notable new features:
  * Depth caching and selecting records on depth
  * Easy migration from parent_id based plugins like nested_set and acts_as_tree

• Dm-is-schemaless

  Brian Lyles of TATFT fame has written dm-is-schemaless which is a DataMapper plugin to accomplish schemaless storage in a relational database by storing it in JSON with a primary key.

  http://github.com/BrianTheCoder/dm-is-schemaless
  http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

• Trusted Params

  Rails plugin which adds a convenient way to override attr_accessible protection.

• Riot

  Riot is a new, concise, and fast testing mini-framework.

• GeoMereLaal

  GeoMereLaal is a plugin that includes all you need to create Location-Aware rails application based on W3C Geolocaton API.

• The Complete Class

  Robert Klemme posts a thorough walk through of writing a Ruby class on the Ruby Best Practices blog.

• acts_as_pingable

  Acts as pingable is a Rails plug-in for simply opening your Rails app to HTTP pings. It can produce pingdom.com XML.

• Sinatra_more

  Sinatra_more strives to be a central-hub for useful sinatra extensions such as tag helpers, form_builders, partials, and a whole lot more.

• Installing Varnish with nginx, Passenger, and Monit on Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid

  Trever posted a tutorial about getting nginx, passenger, varnish, and monit installed on the Almost Effortless blog.

• Loofah

  Loofah is an HTML sanitizer. It will always fix broken markup, but can also sanitize unsafe tags in a few different ways, and transform the markup for storage or display. It’s built on top of Nokogiri and libxml2, so it’s fast.

• Rails 2.3.4 and SWFUpload

  Brian Racer posted a walk through of how to get SWFUpload working with Rails 2.3.4 for gracefully degrading flash and javascript uploads.

• Curbit

  CurbIt makes it easy to add application level rate limiting to your Rails app by using a controller macro.

• Amazon RDS

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform ‘in the cloud’.

The Rails Envy podcast 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

• RPM For Java

  RPM 2 Now supports Java and Ruby 1.9.

• nginx push module

  Nginx HTTP push module – Turn nginx into a long-polling message queuing
  HTTP push server.

• Railscast episode on Formtastic

  Ryan Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.

• The Art of the Library

  Wesley Beary posts on the Engine Yard blog about what makes a good library.

• TDD in Objective-C with MacRuby

  Joshua Ballanco walks through creating a pig latin translator in objective c using MacRuby to TDD.

• Sunspot

  Sunspot exposes all of Solr’s most powerful search features using an API of elegant DSLs. That means robust, flexible fulltext search with no boolean queries and no string programming.

• Inploy

  Inploy is another way of doing deployments with different opinions than Capistrano.

• Full Text Search on Heroku using Texticle

  Aaron Patterson posts on the Tender Lovemaking blog about using Texticle to do full text searching using Postgres

• Boson

  Gabriel Horner put up a tutorial on using Boson to create commands for watching GitHub repos on your shell.

• DeVIL

  DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics format. It also provides some basic image manipulation functionality.

• How to Start Sub-processes part 3

  Avdi posts on the Devver blog part 3 of starting sub-processes in Ruby.

• rails_on_pg

  This is timesaver for middle/large Rails application which used PostgreSQL as database. Create/drop Views, Functions, Triggers, Foreign keys in your migrations using ruby syntax.

• Mappoint/VE

  Using the new handsoap gem, Jeff wraps all the nastiness of the VE and Mappoint web SDK SOAP into two very easy to use gems.

  http://github.com/jmhodges/mappoint
  http://github.com/jmhodges/virtualearth

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Show Notes

• GitHub Discontinues Publishing Gems

  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.

• Gem Bundler is the Future

  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.

• Ruby Daemons and Angels

  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.

• Completely False: Rails site serving 10 million page views per day

  The High Scalability blog has an article up covering Ravelry, a Rails site serving 10 million requests per day from Rails.

• Advanced Messaging and Routing With AMQP

  Ilya Grigorik posts a walk through of using AMQP for messaging and its benefits.

• CodeRack Competition

  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

• Hosted Mongo

  Fred Wilson (AVC) posts about a new hosted Mongo DB service.

• Warp Drive

  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.

• Cap-recipes

  Nathan Esquenazi has posted some common cap recipes on his GitHub account. There are recipes for Ruby, Passenger, Memcache, DelayedJob and more.

• iPhone app development with Ruby web services

  Justin Leitgeib walks through the architecture for his iPhone app SubwayDelay and outlines how he uses Sinatra and Tokyo Cabinet.

• Web Hooks in Ruby on Rails

  Travis Dunn takes a look at one way of doing Web Hooks in your Rails app.

• What’s New in Edge Rails – 10/12/2009

  Nathan Bibler’s post about what’s new in edge rails.

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Show Notes

• Top story: Request log analyzer 1.4.0.1 Released

  Request-log-analyzer 1.4.0.1, now with updated README and LICENSE.

• Unicorn

  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

• Rainbows

  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.

• Mustache

  Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views.

• Install any html theme template in to your rails app

  Dr. Nic walks through using his recently released install_theme to install html templates in to your rails app. It also supports haml.

• Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist

  Matthew Moore put up a code quality check list for Rails apps and goes on to explain, in detail, every item.

• Gemcutter

  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.

• Ruby Inside redesigned

  Ruby Inside has a swanky new look. Check it out.

• RMagick looking for a new maintainer

  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.

• block_helpers

  The block_helpers gem generates helpers similar to the form-builders, but for the general case.

• autotest-fsevent 0.1.2

  Now Snow Leopard compatible! You can safely resume autotesting.

• Instruct a Robot with IRB

  Use an IRB console to control a robot!

• validates_captcha

  A captcha verification approach for Rails apps, directly integrated into ActiveRecord’s validation mechanism and providing helpers for ActionController and ActionView.

In case you missed it last week, we’re now accepting stories and feedback to @railsenvy on Twitter. You know, if you feel like letting us know about something.

The Rails Envy podcast 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.

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Show Notes

• Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-20090928 released

  A new version of REE has been released. The biggest change is that this new version of REE is based on Ruby 1.8.7-p174. It includes the MBARI patches and the zero-copy context switching patch is optional as well. Snow Leopard users must compile with –no-tcmalloc due to an incompatibility.

• Retrospectiva v2RC 1 is Out

  Written in Rails, Retrospectiva is an open-source project management tool intended to assist the collaborative aspect of work carried out by agile software development teams.

  It’s free (MIT License), has full Development Life-cycle support, nice admin, RSS Support, and an API in XML_REST.

• Spree 0.9.0 Released

  Spree 0.9.0 has been released. Spree is an open source Rails shopping cart and e-commerce solution. Version 0.9.0 includes coupon and discount support, Rails 2.3.4 compatibility, enhanced calculators, and more.

• 10 Must-Have Rails Plugins and Gems (2009 Edition)

  Glenn Vanderburg posts 10 must have rails plugins and gems you should be using in your apps.

• RubyMine IDE 2.0 Beta

  Peter Cooper posts over on Ruby Inside about RubyMine IDE 2.0 beta being released. New features include Ruby 1.9 support, Rails 2.3.3 support, Rails i18n support and spell checker, UI improvements, Cucumber and Shoulda support, and Built-in HAML and Sass support.

• FiveRuns Has Been Acquired by Workthink

  Dash will be discontinued on Friday, October 16th, 2009. There are instructions for exporting your data. They’re also setting up a fake Dash service so that existing apps using Dash won’t suddenly fail.

  http://www.fiveruns.com/
  http://support.fiveruns.com/faqs/dash/dash-shutdown

• Textorize for Generating Headline Images

  Textorize is a command line tool for generating headline images to png format by Thomas Fuchs (scriptaculous). It supports subpixel anti-aliasing and is written in Ruby.

• SVN to Git Protips

  Josh Susser posts some tips about the subversion to git process and performing a smooth migration.

• Request Log Analyzer 1.4.0 Released

  We mentioned it last week but now request-log-analyzer version 1.4.0 is out. Request Log Analyzer is a tool to produce performance reports for web applications based on their log files. Version 1.4.0 can now handle Apache access logs, Rack CommonLogger logs and Amazon S3 access logs. It also has improved database support, added standard deviation to reports, can email reports, and more.

• Using Cookie Based Sessions in Sinatra

  Julio Javier Cicchelli walks you through using cookie based sessions in Sinatra over on the Ruby Learning blog.

• WindyCityRails 2009 Videos

  Videos from the WindyCityRails conference this year have been posted.

• MongoDB: A Light in the Darkness! (Key Value Stores Part 5)

  Kirk Haines posts part 5 of his key/value stores walk through on the Engine Yard blog. This week’s post is on MongoDB.

• Completeness-fu

  Completeness-fu for ActiveRecord allows you cleanly define the way a model instance is scored for completeness, similar to LinkedIn user profiles.

• Rails Logging with MongoDB

  Phil Burrows has written up a recipe for logging to MongoDB from your Rails app. MongoDB has some features that make it an excellent choice for storing and querying your logs. If you’ve jumped on the MongoDB, you are obligated to check this out.

• Kitabu PDF generator

  Nando Vieira recently released Kitabu, a framework for generating PDFs from text sources written in Markdown or Textile. This looks like a great tool for those who are itching to self-publish but don’t typically do print work.

• Who Wants To Be A Munger

  Dana Gray’s presentation at Lone Star Ruby Conference on scraping, transforming and formatting data is a great read for those who might fear the dark but useful art of recombobulating data.

• Testing named scopes

  Named scopes are a funny thing. They’re a core part of your application, but they’re also kinda part of the framework. So how should you go about testing them? Dan Croak, A Giant Robot, sheds some light on the topic.

• Database Taxonomy

  Whether you call it NoSQL, post-relational, or a bunch of annoying whippersnappers trying to undermine your career as a awesomely certified DB2 übergod, lots of people are talking about new and different ways to store your application’s data. Ben Scofield, he of Viget Labs, has written an excellent article trying to categorize and organize these emerging technologies so that we might better discuss when they are appropriate to use.

Update: We’re now accepting stories and feedback to @railsenvy on Twitter. You know, if you feel like letting us know about something.

The Rails Envy podcast 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.

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Show Notes

• 5 Things to Look for in JRuby 1.4

  Nick Seiger posts on the Engine Yard blog about 5 things we should be expecting to see in the next version of JRuby.

• Not Using IPAddr Should Result In You Being Mauled By A Bear

  “mrkris” abuses you in to using the IPAddr class to store ip addresses as integers in the database.

• Scout and Rails Log Analyzer

  This is a simple command line tool to analyze request log files of both Rails and Merb to produce a performance report. Its purpose is to find what actions are best candidates for optimization. Scout now supports this with just the path to the log file.

  http://github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer
  http://scoutapp.com/tour/rails_monitoring

• Watchr is watching you

  Watchr is a new gem by Martin Aumont that is similar to autotest but works in any Ruby environment and watches files and directories for changes.

• friendly_id

  FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for Ruby on Rails. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.

• Rubber

  Rubber’s aim is to make it as easy as possible to deploy a rails app to EC2 _without_ sacrificing ones ability to scale that application into a multi instance cluster.

• Learnivore

  Learnivore is a screencast aggregator focusing mostly around Ruby, Rails and iPhone development screencasts. You can sort by site and tags as well as free/paid screencasts.

• Create Your Own Programming Language

  Have you ever wanted to create your own programming language? Marc-André Cournoyer, the creator of Thin, has a new pdf out telling you how.

• Swallow nil

  Dan Croak posts about a function called swallow_nil on the Giant Robots blog.

• Ruby on Hadoop Quickstart

  Phil Ripperger put up a blog post walking through getting Ruby working on Hadoop on EC2. Literally, every step of the way.

• Railscasts: Finding unused CSS

  Ryan Bates has a RailsCast out about using the deadweight gem to remove unused CSS from your apps.

• GIS on Rails

  Simon Tokumine writes about the different Ruby projects you can use to approximate GeoDjango in Rails.

• GeoKit 1.5.0 Released

  GeoKit 1.5.0 has been released with fixed JRuby compatibility and some small additions.

• Reek 1.2.0 Released

  Reek, the code smell detector, version 1.2.0 has been released. This release is Ruby 1.9 compatible and has a couple of new smells added.

• Rufus Tokyo 1.0.1 Released

  Rufus Tokyo 1.0.1 has been released and the biggest change is search/union/intersection/difference for tables.

• 12 Interesting Upcoming Ruby and Rails Events

  Peter Cooper posts about some Ruby and Rails events that are not sold out.

The Rails Envy podcast 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.

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Show Notes

• Filestore Cache Expires_in Plugin

  Adam Salter releases a Rails plugin that adds time based expiration to the Rails file store.

• Cucumber: Step Argument Transforms

  Larry Diehl walks through adding step argument transformations to Cucumber with Dave Astels.

• Using Cucumber to Test a Multilingual App

  Clemens Kofler explores some different methods for testing your multilingual app using Cucumber.

• How to avoid the dog-pile effect on your Rails app

  Hugo Baraúna shows how to avoid the dogpile effect in your Rails app with the SmartMemcacheStore class.

• Eval Isn’t Quite Pure Evil

  James Edward Gray points out that using eval() in your code might not always be "pure evil" and some interesting discussion ensues.

• Growl 1.2b3

  A new beta of Growl for Snow Leopard users.

• Laminate

  Laminate is a system for executing user-written templates built using the Lua languge. Templates written in Lua can be executed securely to generate HTML. For end-users, Laminate offers a simple, convenient, yet powerful template language. For applications, Laminate makes it easy to safely expose data and functions to be executed by user templates.

• CloudCrowd – Parallel Processing for the Rest of Us

  CloudCrowd is a gem that lets you do parallel processing using several computers. It’s got a web interface and works over a REST-JSON API.

• ActiveRecord Attribute Normalization (Rails Plugin)

  Michael Deering has written a plug-in that lets you pass a block to normalize the attributes of a model before being saved to the database.

• RequestSentry plugin

  RequestSentry provides a DSL for your controller to reject requests (via “400 Bad Request”) that supply malicious or malformed
  parameters

• Foreigner

  Rails does not come with methods to add foreign keys. Foreigner introduces a few methods to your migrations for adding and removing foreign key constraints.

• Canonizing pseudo-slugs in Rail

  If you use pseudo-slugs in your Rails app, Henrik Nyh shows you a technique for getting canonical redirects in case the urls are linked incorrectly.

• My Emacs for Rails

  Santiago Pastorino posts his emacs config tailored for Rails development.

• validates_timeliness version 2.2 released

  validates_timeliness version 2.2 has been released with Ruby 1.9 support and a fix for Shoulda.

The Rails Envy podcast 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.

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Show Notes

• Rails Security Issues

  Rails saw some patches for an XSS vulnerability and timing weakness with the cookie store. You can either upgrade your installation to 2.3.4 or patch it with the provided patches. All Rails versions past 2.0 are affected with XSS and 2.1.0 with the timing weakness. It is urged to upgrade ASAP.

  http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/timing-weakness-in-ruby-on-rails
  http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
  http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/ruby-on-rails-2-3-4

• Rails Magazine Issue 4

  Rails magazine issue for is out with coverage from Ruby Kaigi 2009, interviews with prominent community members including DHH, Matz, Yehuda Katz, and others. There’s also articles on background processing, generating pdfs with odf templates, radiant cms, and more.

• Passenger preference pane v1.3

  The Passenger preference pane has been updated to version 1.3 which is Snow Leopard compatible (though in 32 bit mode) and contains bug fixes.

• That’s Not a Memory Leak, It’s Bloat

  This is an Engine Yard blog post about when your application may have a memory leak (rare) versus when there may be bloat from ActiveRecord calls (not rare). Conclusion: rails can’t scale.

• RCov 0.9.0 released

  RCov 0.9.0 is out and it’s prettier and has some other usability enhancements.

  http://github.com/Relevance/rcov
  http://www.idolhands.com/ruby-on-rails/update-rcov-html-and-css-enhancements/

• Open ID Engine

  Terry (terrbear) writes in to let us know that he has packaged the openid plug-in as a Rails engine and it’s now quicker and easier to get up and running in your app.

• Launching Soon

  Launching soon is a plugin that helps rails projects to manage a dedicated launching soon page before the actual launch date. The plugin also collects email from potential customers.

• Bullet

  The Bullet plugin is designed to help you increase your application’s performance by reducing the number of queries it makes. It will watch your queries while you develop your application and notify you when you should add eager loading (N+1 queries) or when you’re using eager loading that isn’t necessary.

• SWFUploadFu

  This plugin allows you to easily integrate SWFUpload to your Ruby on Rails application

• Ruby Pulse

  RubyPulse is a series of short and quickly recorded screencasts showing features of recently realeased or updated Ruby Gems and Libraries by Alexander Peuchert.

• A Cacheable Hash That Stays Synced

  Thomas Mango introduces Cacheable hash so that you don’t have to read and re-write hashes stored in the rails cache if just accessing values.

• Tracking Down Slow-Running Examples in RSpec

  Corey Ehmke shows how to use the ‘profile’ flag in RSpec to track down slow running specs.

• 9 Essential Rails Tips

  The FortyTwo blog has a post on 9 essential Rails tips you should take in to account before going live with your app.

• Planting the Seeds

  Robby Russel gives a tutorial on the new seed features included in Rails 2.3.4.

• Sumo: One-off EC2 Instance Lanching

  Sumo creates, launches, and connects you to one-off EC2 instances from the command line.

The Rails Envy podcast 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.

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Show Notes

• Upgrading to Snow Leopard
• Hivelogic Compilation Guides
  Hivelogic – Compiling Ruby, RubyGems, and Rails on Snow Leopard
  Hivelogic – Compiling Git on Snow Leopard
  Hivelogic – Compiling MySQL on Snow Leopard
• Phusion Passenger 2.2.5 Released
• John Barnette on Rake
• Ruby Version Manager
• Rio makes working with IO easier
• Use a PHPBB forum to handle user authentication in your rails app
• LDAP Pass-through Authentication with Authlogic and ActiveLdap
• Do not burden your users with validations
• Typus auto-admin plugin
• Homebrew
• Introduction to using vim for Rails development
• Git merge vs Git rebase: Avoiding rebase hell
• Donate to Corey Haines
• Launchly
• Ruby Invoicing Framework
• Lyndon
• Gemfeed
• Keep Models Out Of Your Views Business!

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Who do you think the new guest host is? Make some guesses and fill out the poll! It was supposed to be write-in only but polldaddy doesn’t seem to allow that. See you soon!

Update: Thanks everyone for the support! I thought I’d post the votes so far. I thought Poll Daddy would show everyone the write in votes but it doesn’t. Hilarious comments so far.

Name	Votes	Alternate Names Given
Obie Fernandez	5	[Obie "fuckin" Fernandez]
Gregg Pollack	5
Your Mom	4
Zed Shaw	3
Steven Bristol	2	All signs point to an expert in headbutting
Geoffrey Grosenbach	2	the guy who has been doing the ruby on rails podcast!
Gregg’s Mom	2
Eric Cartman	1
Paul Graham	1
The Fail Whale (’rails cant scale’)	1
Pron Fairy	1
Andrew “Dice” Clay	1
Burt Reynolds	1
Michael Jordan	1
Giles Bowkett	1
Anybody, as long as it’s a dude, cause you’re gay	1
tenderlove	1
lowtax	1
Ryan Bates	1
THE_REAL_SHAQ	1
Me	1
Marshall!!	1
God	1
Bob sagget	1
Paris Hilton	1
Adam Keys	1	[V from MVC]
Ya boy r. elliot	1
DHH	1
Jason Seifer	1
Josh Peek	1
Mr. Clean	1
Bill Clinton	1

Episode 89. This is the last Rails Envy podcast by Nathaniel Bibler and I. You’ll just have to listen to the podcast for more details, which I hope you were planning on anyways. FYI, Jason Seifer may be doing another cast after this, so it may not be the official last one, just the last one for Nathan and I.

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Show Notes

• 
  Ruby on Rails on AppEngine using JRuby
  


• 
  JRuby team moves to EngineYard
  


• 
  JRuby’s Importance to Ruby
  


• 
  IronRuby 0.9 Released
  


• 
  IronRuby with Mono and Moonlight
  


• 
  Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers
  


• 
  First Rails and RailsBridge BugMash
  


• 
  Do it later with Delayed Job
  


• 
  Backgrounded
  


• 
  Key-Value Stores in Ruby
  


• 
  Ruby Switcher
  


• 
  RailsLab: Scaling Your Database Part 1 | Part 2
  


• 
  Setup your server right – Part 1
  


• 
  Using SQLite with Ruby on Windows
  


• 
  Ruby 1.9 and File Encodings
  


• 
  Lone Star Ruby Conference
  


• 
  Rails Summit Latin America
  


• 
  Continous Integration Installation Gotchas
  


• 
  Bond – Irb with Completion Love
  


• 
  Apple Push Notifications
  


• 
  Building Native Mobile Apps in Rhodes
  


• 
  Pro Git Book
  


• 
  Envy Labs Blog
  

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Show Notes

• Programming Contest! Win iPhone 3GS & $2,000 Cloud Credit
• 6 Free Ruby Icons For Your Projects
• Nano jquery templating engine
• Ruby & Rails Conferences in 09
• A dozen (or so) ways to start sub-processes in Ruby: Part 2
• Finding Memory Leaks with Bleak House
• El Dorado now compatible with Heroku
• Gibbler: Git-like Hashes and History for Ruby Objects
• External Search Sources
• WikiCloth

Episode 86. We bring you the latest news in the Ruby and Rails world. This week features co-host Nathan Bibler, tequila, a singing robot, and a Hoedown. What more could you ask for?

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Show Notes

• 
  Ruby Tube – Ruby Videos/Screencasts
  


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  Rumblestiltskin – Rails Rumble Ideas
  


• 
  Sitemap Generator Plugin
  


• 
  Rails Black Box Testing Complex Models
  


• 
  Get Your API Right
  


• 
  Patron: a Ruby HTTP client library
  


• 
  MacRuby Drops GIL, Gains Concurrent Threads
  


• 
  A Dozen or so ways to start Sub-processes in Ruby
  


• 
  How to create small, unique tokens in Ruby
  


• 
  Apps for America 2
  


• 
  Rails Rescue Handbook
  


• 
  Ruby Hoedown
  


• 
  Upcoming Railscamp Events
  


• 
  Hampton’s Ruby Survey
  


• 
  Haml & Sass 2.2 Released
  


• 
  Anemone – Spidering Websites
  


• 
  Driving Business Processes in Ruby
  


• 
  Rails Magazine – Issue #3
  


• 
  6 Reasons to use Webbynode
  


• 
  The Humans are Dead & Binary Solo
  

Update: After pushing out the podcast, I received the following Tweet from @thoughtbot:

LOL, see.. thoughtbot’s can sing!

Episode 84. This week Nathan Bibler joins me to talk about bug fixes of bug fixes, new libraries, video podcasts, Duke Nukem, and Zelda.

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Show Notes

• 
  Phusion Passenger 2.2.4 Released
  


• 
  Locale based on TLD
  


• 
  What to Expect in Rails 3 Webinar
  


• 
  Javascript Lint
  


• 
  Javascript Lint for Rails
  


• 
  A Quick Primer on Sharding for Rails
  


• 
  Fat Free CRM
  


• 
  Hirb – Mini View Framework for Irb
  


• 
  Ajax File Uploads
  


• 
  Build and Deploy a Shopify App in 8 minutes
  


• 
  SDRuby Podcast
  


• 
  Ruby on OSX Conference Videos
  


• 
  Scaling Rails Screencast – Rack & Metal
  


• 
  RailsLab – Heroku Interview
  


• 
  9 ways to use Rails Metal
  


• 
  Testing Rails with Rack::Test
  

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Show Notes

• NZKoz’s bigdecimal-segfault-fix at master – GitHub
• Riding Rails: DoS Vulnerability in Ruby
• Rails 3 Architecture
• Engine Yard is going to offer JRuby support
• Profiling with Ruby and Google’s Perftools
• Coffee Powered – Fine tuning your garbage collector
• About Rip
• InfoQ: Rip: A New Package Management System for Ruby
• RubyRep: Database replication that doesn’t hurt
• Searchlogic updated to 2.0
• Ruby daemons using RobustThread
• TATFT Mousepad Redux
• Sinatra Rack And Middleware
• Ruby Flippin’ Hoedown Two Thousand Flippin’ Nine
• Sarah Mei: The First Rails Workshop
• Jake Scruggs: Iteration Zero
• Webbynode Official Launch
• hotgazpacho » Blog Archive » Cucumber and IronRuby: It Runs! – yes, it is an oxymoron…
• Hoe 2.1.0 Released
• Radiant CMS 0.8.0 Released

Also mentioned in this episode is BizConf. Gregg will be speaking and it looks like a great event. Check it out and listen to the podcast for more info.

Rack, Metal, & Rails Middleware

Summary

Rails 2.3 now uses the Rack. In this screencast I give a quick introduction to Rack & Rack Middleware. Once we get familiar with the syntax of these libraries we move into a tutorial that walks through the Rails Middleware stack, so that we can gain a better understanding of what middleware can be used for, and how we can use it to help Scale our application. Lastly we learn how to use Rack Metal to take certain actions in your Rails application and make them snappy.

I hope you find these videos useful. Don’t forget to subscribe to the screencast RSS feed or grab it on ITunes to avoid missing any of these episodes. FYI, These videos look great on an iPhone / iPod if you want something to watch on the go.

Episode 82. Another week of useful news and libraries for any Ruby or Rails developer, this week co-hosted by Nathaniel Bibler.

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Show Notes

• 
  Rails security problem with authenticate_with_http_digest
  


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  Yard Documentation Generator
  


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  Trample: A better load simulator
  


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  Auto Timeout Sessions in Rails
  


• 
  Machinist 1.0 Released
  


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  Getting Rails to play with a legacy Oracle database
  


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  Unity: A Reporting System for RubySpec
  


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  WeeklyBuilder: A weekly calendar plugin for Rails
  


• 
  Fat binary gems on Windows
  


• 
  Golden Gate Ruby Conference wrap up
  


• 
  Aloha on Rails
  


• 
  Shopify API and Store
  

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Show Notes

• Sunspot – Solr Powered Search for Ruby/Rails
• Free Ruby/JRuby/Rails course (with Passion!)
• Kete – Online Collaberation Tool
• Enforcing Ruby code quality
• Stories with Contest / an alternative to Cucumber
• Reading Ruby’s Standard Library for Fun & Profit
• Deadlier and Simpler Rails Deployment
• Spellcheck your files with Aspell and Rake
• Redcar – text editor for Linux
• Ruby Enterprise Edition – Third Sponsorship Campaign
• Is it JRuby?
Diving into Irb
• Tagaholic – Demystifying Irb’s Commands
• Tagaholic – Exploring How To Configure Irb

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Show Notes

• Ruby 1.8.6 Maintenance Transition
• VIM Ruby Debugger
• Autotest and Vim integration
• Scotland On Rails Presentations
• LA Rubyconf videos up
Alternative to Multiruby
• out of time (mat brown on programming) – Installing alternate Ruby versions as optional packages
• out of time (mat brown on programming) – A 15-line alternative to multiruby
• externals – manage your external git dependancies
• Parallel Specs
EngineYard: 5 Tips to Scale Your Rails App
• 5 Tips to Scale Your Ruby on Rails Application | Union Station
• RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails
• CurbFU
• TATFT Mousepad
• Secret URLs in Rails
RubyTrends
• RubyTrends
• Ruby on Rails Plugins | AgileWebDevelopment
• Dear Railsists, Please don’t be obtrusive
• Family Tree using Graphviz and Ruby
• Importing Mephisto Comments into Disqus
• Agile Ajax: Fixture Replacement Comparison
• Barometer
Toronto Ruby Job Fair
• FutureRuby
• employment.nil?
• Ruby Currying
• UC Berkeley 1 day ruby on rails tutorial videos
• Ruby One-Click Installer Plegie
• Injet and the Mandelbrot Set
• Mac Friendly Autotest

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• Ruby VM Roundup
• Blather – XMPP DSL for Ruby
• Queueing with RabbitMQ and AMQP
• What to Expect in Rails 3.0 – Free Webcast
• SMS On Rails
Ri_Cal gem for iCalender Integration
• InfoQ: RiCal: A New iCalendar Library for Ruby
• rubyredrick’s ri_cal at master – GitHub
• Build Games in Ruby using Rubygame
• Ocra: One-Click Ruby Application Builder
• Job_fu – Simple Asychronous Processing
• Ruby http require
• Rails Magazine Issue #2 – Rails 2009 Report
Rails Testing Frequently Asked Questions
• Agile Ajax » Rails Testing Frequently Asked Questions — The Non-Code Version » Pathfinder Development
• Rails Prescriptions
• TorqueBox – Rails on JBoss
• Dan Croak’s Twitter Search Gem
• 10 Reasons You Should Be Listening to the Rails Envy Podcast
• Thoughtbot: Thunder Thimble
• Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost
• Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost.
• 6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, +1300% requests/sec