sd.rb podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

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

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

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

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.

Patrick Crowley discusses his experiences with acts_as_taggable. 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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