Episode 050: One-man Lightning Talk

June 28, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

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

June 20, 2008 @ 12:19 AM

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

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Episode 048: Ruby for Data Processing

June 13, 2008 @ 09:31 PM

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

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Episode 047: Lazy Indexing

June 13, 2008 @ 09:31 PM

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.

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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Episode 046: RSpec in 15 minutes

June 05, 2008 @ 04:57 PM

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

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Episode 045: Merb

June 05, 2008 @ 04:32 PM

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.

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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Episode 044: Ext JavaScript Library

May 24, 2008 @ 12:23 AM

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

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Episode 043: Facebook API

May 24, 2008 @ 12:19 AM

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.

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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Episode 042: Deploying Rails on Slicehost

April 28, 2008 @ 06:29 PM

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.

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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Episode 041: MySQL Clustering

April 28, 2008 @ 06:18 PM

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.

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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Episode 040: Unobtrusive Javascript

January 21, 2008 @ 08:25 PM

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

January 10, 2008 @ 03:24 AM

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.

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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Episode 038: Haml and Sass in 15 minutes

November 20, 2007 @ 08:22 PM

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.

Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

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Episode 037: Rails Sexy Charts

November 13, 2007 @ 06:11 PM

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.

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Episode 036: The Return of Kevin Clark

November 03, 2007 @ 12:02 AM

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

November 02, 2007 @ 11:48 PM

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

Episode 034: Intro to JRuby

November 02, 2007 @ 11:41 PM

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

Episode 033: Life on Edge

November 02, 2007 @ 11:26 PM

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

November 02, 2007 @ 11:08 PM

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

Episode 031: Seaside

November 02, 2007 @ 10:54 PM

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

Episode 030: Tuneshelf

November 02, 2007 @ 10:41 PM

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)

November 02, 2007 @ 10:23 PM

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

November 02, 2007 @ 10:11 PM

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

Episode 027: Headliner and Styler

November 02, 2007 @ 08:22 PM

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

Episode 026: ActsAsSolr

November 02, 2007 @ 08:22 PM

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

November 02, 2007 @ 08:10 PM

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

November 02, 2007 @ 07:57 PM

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

Episode 023: RubyInline

June 15, 2007 @ 07:57 PM

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

May 31, 2007 @ 07:08 AM

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

April 23, 2007 @ 04:13 AM

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

Episode 020: ImageScience

March 25, 2007 @ 01:25 AM

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

March 03, 2007 @ 08:31 PM

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

February 21, 2007 @ 11:24 PM

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

February 15, 2007 @ 11:35 PM

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

January 16, 2007 @ 09:43 PM

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

Episode 015: Rails for Legacy Applications

January 16, 2007 @ 09:43 PM

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

Episode 014: Ruby Idioms - Part 1

January 16, 2007 @ 09:42 PM

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

Episode 013: Mocha and Stubba

November 06, 2006 @ 08:43 AM

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

Episode 012: Deployment

November 06, 2006 @ 08:43 AM

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

November 06, 2006 @ 08:42 AM

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.

Episode 010: REST Web Services with Rails

October 03, 2006 @ 04:37 PM

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

October 03, 2006 @ 04:34 PM

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

October 03, 2006 @ 04:32 PM

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

September 08, 2006 @ 05:24 PM

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

Episode 006: Dynamic Domains

September 08, 2006 @ 05:20 PM

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

September 08, 2006 @ 05:17 PM

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

Episode 004: Numbers

September 08, 2006 @ 05:14 PM

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

Episode 003: mkmf

July 24, 2006 @ 08:54 PM

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

July 24, 2006 @ 08:53 PM

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

July 17, 2006 @ 11:32 PM

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