SD Ruby Podcast

Episode 108: Fog: The Ruby Cloud Services Library

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:48:30 +0000

James Miller demonstrates how to get up and running with Fog, including practical use cases, caveats, and how to make Fog better by contributing back.

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Episode 107: Advanced Heroku with the Celadon Cedar Stack

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:55:52 +0000

Ryan Daigle and Blake Gentry explore all the new features in Heroku's Celadon Cedar stack.

Episode 106: JRuby: Ruby in the JVM. Why on Earth?!?

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:21:11 +0000

JRuby is a 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby with high performance, real threading, and a vast array of libraries. Chris McCann explores how JRuby can provide real value for Rails developers.

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Episode 105: Get Your Flow On: Mastering Your Development Workflow

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:12:09 +0000

Rob Kaufman explores tools and options for improving your development process: common issues with managing tasks, starting work, committing branches, and getting completed tasks verified and deployed to production. It's all about automating the little steps because details are too easy to forget.

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Episode 104: Send SMS Messages and Make Phone Calls From Your App With Twilio

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:05:52 +0000

Brian Levine shows how easy it is to add phone services to your application using Twilio. Twilio wraps powerful telecom infrastructure with a simple REST API and offers pay-as-you-go pricing with cloud scalability.

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Episode 103: HTML5 Quick Start with Compass-html5-boilerplate

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:05:16 +0000

Peter Gumeson shows off his compass-html5-boilerplate gem, which uses Compass to make it easier to integrate the HTML5 Boilerplate template into Rails apps.

Episode 102: Newick-Ruby: A Gem for Manipulating Newick Format Trees

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:04:51 +0000

Jonathan Badger explores Newick format trees, and how to manipulate them using his Newick-ruby gem.

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Episode 101: TRegexp: Friendly Regular Expressions

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:04:28 +0000

Ian Young introduces his first gem, a human-friendly DSL for regular expressions.

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Episode 100: Getting Oriented with Compass

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:04:01 +0000

Patrick Crowley shows how to turbo-charge your layouts with Compass, a lightweight stylesheet framework built on top of Haml and Sass.

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Episode 099: Omniauth: Future Proof Your Authentication

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:03:35 +0000

Kevin Ball shows how the traditional model of username/password authentication is dying, and how Omniauth makes it all rainbows and sunshine going forward.

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Episode 098: Give Yourself Some Backbone

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:02:52 +0000

Ryan Weald gives a brief overview of Backbone.js and the advantages it has for your project.

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Episode 097: Basic Reporting with Ruby and CouchDB

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:02:17 +0000

Christopher Petersen shows how to create both basic reports on individual user behavior and aggregate reports across all user activity.

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Episode 096: Rounded Corners Everywhere

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:01:33 +0000

Scott Olmsted explores Javascript libraries to simulate CSS3 decorations on browsers that don't support them. (Yeah, we're talking about you Internet Explorer.)

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Episode 095: The State of MacRuby

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:19:23 +0000

Matt Aimonetti discusses the latest developments with the MacRuby project, which aims to implement Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies.

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Episode 094: Refactoring ActiveRecord Models

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:10:11 +0000

It's always important to keep your ActiveRecord models in tip-top shape. Ben Hughes explores several techniques for refactoring models and preventing them from getting out of hand.

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Episode 093: Are You Redis?

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:58:22 +0000

Emanuele Tozzato gives a brief introduction to Redis, then demonstrates real-life database performance optimization with redis-object and how to manage background jobs using Resque.

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Episode 092: File Uploads With S3SwfUpload

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:57:56 +0000

Nathan Colgate Clark gives a general overview of his Amazon S3 upload plugin (past, present, and future) and shares his thoughts on how it managed to stand out on GitHub.

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Episode 091: Message Block

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:57:28 +0000

Ben Hughes shows off message_block, a gem which simplifies generating flash and error messages. Additionally, Ben discusses how to test gem development using Cucumber and Cukigem.

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Episode 090: CoffeeScript

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:56:49 +0000

People are drawn to Ruby by its beautiful syntax, and CoffeeScript brings that same joie de vivre to Javascript. John Lynch shares his experience using CoffeeScript for both web and mobile app development.

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Episode 089: Ruleby

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:56:22 +0000

Chris McCann demonstrates Ruleby, a Ruby implementation of a rules engine based on the Rete algorithm.

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Episode 088: Trucker

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:55:50 +0000

Patrick Crowley talks about Trucker, a new gem that makes it easier to migrate legacy data into Rails apps.

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Episode 087: Searching With Solr

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:55:26 +0000

Get up and running in no time with enterprise-grade search powered by Solr. Nick Zadrozny shows you what Solr can do, how it works, and how you can make the most of it in production.

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Episode 086: Mobile Web Apps Using jQTouch

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:54:48 +0000

Patrick Crowley dives into the world of mobile app development and shows how to use the jQTouch framework to quickly build awesome mobile-optimized web apps.

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Episode 085: Introduction to Node.js

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:54:18 +0000

Web standards advocate Edward O'Connor gives a quick introduction to Node.js, a new event-driven networking engine for JavaScript.

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Episode 084: Quick and Cheap Usability for Programmers

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:53:10 +0000

Megan O'Rorke introduces the general concept and goal of usability, and shares some quick and cheap usability resources for Ruby developers.

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Episode 083: Testing Philosophies

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:52:36 +0000

Rob Kaufman discusses common testing philosophies and methodologies in use by the Ruby community.

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Episode 082: Behavior Driven Development Using Ruby, Cucumber, and rSpec

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:51:47 +0000

Steve Ross gives an introduction to behavior driven development using Ruby, Cucumber, and rSpec. This is a practical how-to for developers who have not yet integrated behavior driven development into their workflow.

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Episode 081: Rolling with Riak

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:41:23 +0000

John Lynch from Rigel Group gives an overview of Riak, the newest kid on the NoSQL block, and explains why it should power your next web-scale app.

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Episode 080: EventMachine, AMQP, and WebSockets: The Musical

Wed, 26 May 2010 17:46:09 +0000

Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny give an overview of cutting-edge, real-time programming for the web; and demonstrate an interactive, web-based sequencer.

Episode 079: Artificial Stupidity: Adding Smarts to Yer Kode

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:12:57 +0000

Machine learning and data mining have long been "black arts" because they require access to expensive computing clusters. Randall Thomas discusses machine learning and the problem spaces it can help solve.

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Episode 078: Scripting Android With Ruby

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:55:23 +0000

Mark Ranallo will give an introduction to using JRuby in conjunction with the Android Scripting Environment.

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Episode 077: Building Your Own Hosting Environment

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:41:44 +0000

Nic Benders will show you what's needed for building a hosting environment for production applications. The focus will be on selecting server hardware, picking a Linux Distro, and getting your Rails app running.

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Episode 076: OpenCyc

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:50:51 +0000

Guyren Howe gives a way-too-brief demonstration of OpenCyc, an AI technology based on the world's most comprehensive general-purpose ontology. Along the way, he reveals how to talk to OpenCyc using JRuby.

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Episode 075: Heroku

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:05:46 +0000

Blake Mizerany from Heroku shows off the company's cloud platform for Ruby applications. The talk covers Heroku basics, Sinatra, Ruby development, and scaling.

Episode 074: Moonshine: 190 Proof Deployment

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:19:38 +0000

Jarin Udom shows how to set up a full Rails stack and deploy your app on a bare Ubuntu server in 10 minutes. Is he drunk? Find out!

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Episode 073: Cappuccino

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:40:49 +0000

Cappuccino is a framework for building desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser. Brian Chapados reviews the design concepts of Cappuccino and the underlying Objective-J language, shows how to get started, and builds a simple app for searching scientific literature databases.

This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting.

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Episode 072: MongoDB

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:10:46 +0000

Scott Motte introduces us to the document-oriented database MongoDB and shows how to use MongoDB as an alternative to MySQL and ActiveRecord using the MongoMapper gem.

This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting.

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Episode 071: Mess of Protocols

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:27 +0000

Guyren Howe discusses how we use different applications and protocols to govern how we communicate: with whom, how privately, how immediately, whether through text/video/whatever, and so on. He proposes we decouple these ideas, which would simplify and enrich the ways we communicate.

This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting.

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Episode 070: Processing Real-world HTML

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:01:40 +0000

Edward O'Connor from djangosd gives an overview of html5lib, a major-desktop-browser-compatible HTML parser and tokenizer for both Ruby and Python.

This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting.

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Episode 069: Rails 3: From Vaporware to Awesomeness in 12 Months

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:49:22 +0000

Yehuda Katz returns to San Diego with a report on the latest developments with the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

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Episode 068: Hybrid iPhone Apps with Titanium Mobile

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:10:37 +0000

Scott Motte talks about iPhone development using the Titanium Mobile framework, including how to build a basic app.

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Episode 067: Cooking up a Cloud (with Chef & EC2)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:41:45 +0000

Chef is a young and ambitious Ruby DSL built for easy configuration management. Nick Zadrozny will take a look at the philosophy of configuration management, the basics of Chef, and some recipes to build out a basic Rails server.

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Episode 066: Unit Testing: The Easy Way

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:40:20 +0000

With Rspec and Cucumber, Ruby has brought testing to a whole new level, but tests still require a lot of work.

But things just got better. Llewellyn Falco will show you new patterns and practices to dramatically decrease the amount of effort needed to test.

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Episode 065: HotRuby + jQuery: Ruby in the Browser

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:46:14 +0000

Daniel Moore will demonstrate using the HotRuby VM to execute Ruby code natively in the browser. The demonstration shows how Ruby can call native JS libraries, like jQuery, to perform DOM manipulation.

Episode 064: Ruby 1.9.1

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:51:35 +0000

Bradly Feeley reviews the new features and syntax changes in the latest production ready Ruby release, Ruby 1.9.1.

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Episode 063: Earning an "A" in YSlow

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:50:08 +0000

Nick Zadrozny takes us on a tour of basic website performance optimization, covering 13 optimizations you shouldn't deploy your site without. He'll also go over some sample implementations for a typical Rails app, including a demo of how to serve your public assets from Amazon's new CloudFront CDN.

Episode 062: Track Magic

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:48:24 +0000

Jim Rea will demonstrate Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop without a browser.

Episode 061: Tanning Bed

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:42:53 +0000

Rob Kaufman demonstrates Tanning Bed, his new Solr search mixin for any Ruby class. Tanning Bed makes fewer assumptions about how you want to deal with the Solr search engine, while still providing easy Ruby-like interfaces.

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Episode 060: Migrating Legacy Data

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:15:28 +0000

Let's face it. Migrating legacy data into a new app is a giant pain in the ass. It's slow, error prone, and a ton of work.

What if you could import old data into a new app before it's finished? Normalize fields? Clean up old data? And migrate often? Patrick Crowley shows the way.

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Episode 059: Rails Case Study

Wed, 20 May 2009 03:56:54 +0000

Guyren Howe is doing something a little different with his current project, trying to make it more user-modifiable and user friendly than your average intraweb application, and removing some of the redundancy in regular Rails code. The current state of the project will be discussed, along with whether the interesting parts should be open sourced.

Episode 058: MacRuby: What's the big deal?

Wed, 20 May 2009 03:40:21 +0000

Last year, Apple released MacRuby, an open source Ruby implementation written on top of the Objective-C runtime. Writing native MacOSX applications in Ruby without having to pay the cost of using a bridge is now a reality. This is an important milestone for Ruby, Apple and the Ruby community.

Matt Aimonetti will explain the implementation, show how to build desktop applications with MacRuby & HotCocoa, and discuss why Ruby developers should add this new tool to their utility belt. Matt will also talk about the future of MacRuby.

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Episode 057: Facebooker Plugin

Wed, 20 May 2009 03:21:15 +0000

Michael Madrid discusses Styleact (a Facebook application) and how to develop Facebook apps using Ruby on Rails and the Facebooker plugin.

Episode 056: Ruby 1.9 or Bust!

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:20:19 +0000

Rob Kaufman talks about his new Ruby 1.9 or Bust project. The project is dedicated to updating popular Ruby gems to be Ruby 1.9 compatible, and is seeking donations to hire a full-time developer to work on porting gems.

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Episode 055: MySQL, Postgres, and Rails

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:04:53 +0000

Guyren Howe has considerable experience with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. He discusses the myriad technical and other advantages to using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for, well, pretty much anything.

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Episode 054: Paperclip

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:31:00 +0000

Patrick Crowley talks about Paperclip, a lightweight plugin for handling attachments.

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Episode 053: Ruby Arduino Development (RAD)

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:17:43 +0000

Sensors and servos in hand, JD Barnhart shows off the current state of RAD, the Rails inspired framework bringing convention over configuration and Ruby sensibility to the Arduino Physical computing platform.

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Episode 052: Shadow

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:48:45 +0000

Jordan Fowler reveals his new Shadow plugin that tracks attribute and association changes to ActiveRecord objects, making it easy to create activity feeds for your application.

Episode 051: Archaeopteryx

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:37:28 +0000

Giles Bowkett shows off his mega-cool MIDI scaffolding generator for creating dance music with Ruby.

Episode 050: One-man Lightning Talk

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:24 +0000

Kevin Clark is back again and talking about his latest work: Rubinius, grammar parsing from ruby, kqueue, and massive build systems.

Episode 049: Intro to EC2

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:19:27 +0000

Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there.

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Episode 048: Ruby for Data Processing

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:31:40 +0000

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes.

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Episode 047: Lazy Indexing

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:31:29 +0000

Matt Aimonetti shows how to quickly get your database queries to run faster when you are not a DBA and are running out of time.

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Episode 046: RSpec in 15 minutes

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:57:23 +0000

Cliff Rhyne describes in 15 minutes what it takes to get up and running with RSpec.

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Episode 045: Merb

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:32:34 +0000

Much like Rails, Merb is a MVC web-framework written in Ruby. In this talk, Jordan Fowler introduces Merb and presents some of the distinctions and tradeoffs between the two frameworks.

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Episode 044: Ext JavaScript Library

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:23:28 +0000

Adam Grant talks about his experiences using Ext, a new Javascript library for creating advanced UI controls (like grids, trees, progress bars, etc).

Episode 043: Facebook API

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:19:48 +0000

John Bresnik discusses the ruby library for the Facebook API, Facebooker, based on his production experience building Facebook applications. Presentation includes general overview of the Facebook API, Facebooker specifics, as well as code examples.

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Episode 042: Deploying Rails on Slicehost

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:54 +0000

Jared Kuolt shows how to quickly deploy your Rails application to a Slicehost VPS. This talk covers installing MySQL, Nginx, Rails and Mongrel, as well as deployment using Capistrano.

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Episode 041: MySQL Clustering

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:18:02 +0000

Rob Kaufman takes on database scaling with MySQL. This talk will walk you through setting up a Master (read write) Slave (read only) MySQL network, as well as a Master Master, or Multi-Master network. The talk will also cover the whys and when of database clustering.

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Episode 040: Unobtrusive Javascript

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:25:15 +0000

Matt Aimonetti lays down the law on best-practice Ajax, using behavior oriented javascript with progressive enhancement.

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Episode 039: ActionMailer in Action

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:24:31 +0000

Rob Kaufman talks about using ActionMailer safely, how to keep out of the spam box and how to test your emails before your customers see them.

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Episode 038: Haml and Sass in 15 minutes

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:22:59 +0000

Patrick Crowley gets you up to speed on using Haml and Sass. Haml is a drop in replacement for ERB that turns your views into beautiful code poetry. Sass does the same for CSS.

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Episode 037: Rails Sexy Charts

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:11:37 +0000

Matt Aimonetti demonstrates how to create awesome, Flash-powered charts by integrating Rails with amCharts.

Bonus content: download the sample app shown in this talk or read Matt's original Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes blog post.

Episode 036: The Return of Kevin Clark

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:02:56 +0000

Kevin Clark takes a break from Powerset to give a full-throttle talk on using Merb as a JSON-RPC service, god, gem2rpm, and heckle.

Episode 035: ActiveRecord Backup & MimetypeFu

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:48:28 +0000

Matt Aimonetti demonstrates his newest plugins: ActiveRecord Backup and MimetypeFu.

Episode 034: Intro to JRuby

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:41:27 +0000

Brian Chapados shows how to install and work with the latest JRuby release.

Episode 033: Life on Edge

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:26:47 +0000

If you're a Rails junkie, you'll want to develop on Edge Rails. Matt Clark explains how to get started and shares some of the challenges of working on Edge.

Episode 032: Capistrano

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:49 +0000

Rob Kaufman takes on Capistrano 2. What is it? How does it work? What's changed since version 1?

Episode 031: Seaside

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:54:11 +0000

Roger Whitney explores Seaside, the web application framework based on Smalltalk.

Episode 030: Tuneshelf

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:41:54 +0000

Dominic Damian talks about his experiences building Tuneshelf, a web application that allows music fans to keep track of their favorite music albums.

Episode 029: Big Stinking Piles (of data)

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:23:56 +0000

What do you do when third-party data vendors don't speak REST? Rob Kaufman discuss real-world techniques for importing and exporting data. (This talk was also given at RailsConf 2007.)

Episode 028: Simple Sidebar Plugin

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:11:08 +0000

Ryan Felton shows how to use Simple Sidebar plugin to DRY up sidebar content in applications.

Episode 027: Headliner and Styler

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:22:36 +0000

Patrick Crowley talks about his newest plugins: Headliner and Styler.

Episode 026: ActsAsSolr

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:22:04 +0000

Rob Kaufman shows how easy it is to integrate Solr powered search into your Rails application using the ActsAsSolr plugin.

Episode 025: Ajax CSS Star Rating with ActsAsRateable

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:10:25 +0000

Ryan Felton shows off how to build an Ajax-powered, CSS star rater using the ActsAsRateable plugin and Komodo Media's CSS Star Rating Redux technique.

Episode 024: Using Ruby + Amazon SQS to build backdoors

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:57:43 +0000

Brian Chapados talks about using Ruby and Amazon's Simple Que Service web service to build backdoors into systems.

Episode 023: RubyInline

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:57:11 +0000

Nick Zadrozny shows us how to use C in Ruby with RubyInline. As an example, Nick walks us through writing a password-generating application with the help of Diceware.

Episode 022: DRP

Thu, 31 May 2007 07:08:50 +0000

DRP stands for Directed Ruby Programming. In this episode, Warren Henning explains exactly what that means and why you might be interested in it.

Episode 021: Merb

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:13:15 +0000

Chris Van Pelt gives us an introduction to Merb. Merb is a Ruby framework built by Ezra Zygmuntowicz.

Episode 020: ImageScience

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:25:33 +0000

In this episode, Tom Werner covers some of the basics of the ruby image library ImageScience. ImageScience is a wrapper for the FreeImage graphics library, and is a lightweight alternative to RMagick.

Episode 019: AWS S3

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:31:05 +0000

Jordan Fowler gives a presentation on Amazon's S3 service. He also covers the AWS::S3 gem written by Marcel Molina Jr.

Episode 018: StaffTool

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:24:41 +0000

In this episode, Toby Sterrett gives us an update on his soon-to-be-released project StaffTool. StaffTool is a web-based church management application build with Ruby on Rails.

Episode 017: ActsNaked

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:35:02 +0000

In today's episode, Patrick Crowley introduces his first Rails plugin titled ActsNaked. It's an easy way to strip your models and keep them DRY.

Episode 016: MasterView Templates

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:43:14 +0000

Deb Lewis showcases her project MasterView. MasterView is a template language for Rails.

Episode 015: Rails for Legacy Applications

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:43:08 +0000

Patrick Crowley covers some of the finer point of using Rails with legacy applications.

Episode 014: Ruby Idioms - Part 1

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:42:56 +0000

Tom Werner gives us part 1 of his series on Ruby idoms.

Episode 013: Mocha and Stubba

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:43:46 +0000

Kevin Clark shows us how to use mocks and stubs in your Ruby tests using Mocha and Stubba

Episode 012: Deployment

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:43:33 +0000

Dominic Damian talks about the different options available to you when deploying a Rails application. He covers areas such as servers, caching, database, and hosting.

Episode 011: ActsAsTaggable Plugin

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:42:37 +0000

Patrick Crowley discusses his experiences with actsastaggable. He starts off outlining some of the differences between the gem and the plugin. Patrick then creates a simple app to show off some of the capabilities of the plugin.

Episode 010: REST Web Services with Rails

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:37:55 +0000

Chris Abad talks a little bit about providing web services to your Rails application using some of the new REST features found in Edge Rails. At the end, he also throws in a bonus tip on using Rick Olson's authentication plugin restful_authentication to add authentication to your REST API.

Here are the slides

Episode 009: REST with Rails

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:34:31 +0000

In this episode, Kevin Clark shows us some of the new REST features found in Edge Rails. He covers some basic concepts such as HTTP verbs, and also takes a look at using RESTful routes.

Here are the slides

Episode 008: Chronic

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:32:29 +0000

Tom Werner has released the ruby gem Chronic, a natural language date and time parser. In this episode he gives us a quick run through of some of the cool points.

Episode 007: Rails Authentication

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:24:08 +0000

Kevin Clark gives us a brief overview of two of Rick Olson's authentication plugins: actsasauthenticated and restful_authentication.

Episode 006: Dynamic Domains

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:20:17 +0000

Chris Abad introduces the new web service, Outlandish. He also shows us how they handle dynamic domains within Outlandish.

Here are the slides

Episode 005: ARTS Plugin

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:17:13 +0000

Kevin Clark demos his new Rails plugin, ARTS, which allows you to test your RJS templates.

Episode 004: Numbers

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:14:30 +0000

Tom Werner wows us with the power of numbers in Ruby.

Episode 003: mkmf

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:54:52 +0000

Kevin Clark takes us through some of the work he's doing on mkmf for his Summer of Rails project. We also get a quick preview of Kevin's RailsDay app, Advisr.

Episode 002: Camping

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:53:32 +0000

Chris Van Pelt discussing Camping, a microframework built by Why the Lucky Stiff. Chris also gives us a preview of a cool little Camping app he built title Croppr.

Episode 001: Summer of Rails

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:32:03 +0000

Patrick Crowley discusses Summer of Rails. He also introduces his first Summer of Rails project, Graffletopia.