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The San Diego Ruby Users Group gets together to discuss various items of interest within the Ruby community.

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Friday October 10th, 2008

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Episode 055: MySQL, Postgres, and Rails

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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. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Saturday September 20th, 2008

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Episode 054: Paperclip

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Patrick Crowley talks about Paperclip, a lightweight plugin for handling attachments. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Friday September 12th, 2008

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Episode 053: Ruby Arduino Development (RAD)

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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. Bonus content: download the slides from this

Saturday August 30th, 2008

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Episode 052: Shadow

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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.

Thursday August 21st, 2008

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Episode 051: Archaeopteryx

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

Saturday June 28th, 2008

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Episode 050: One-man Lightning Talk

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

Friday June 20th, 2008

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Episode 049: Intro to EC2

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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.

Friday June 13th, 2008

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Episode 048: Ruby for Data Processing

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Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes.
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Episode 047: Lazy Indexing

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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. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Thursday June 5th, 2008

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Episode 046: RSpec in 15 minutes

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Cliff Rhyne describes in 15 minutes what it takes to get up and running with RSpec. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.
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Episode 045: Merb

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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. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Saturday May 24th, 2008

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Episode 044: Ext JavaScript Library

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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.)
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Episode 043: Facebook API

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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

Monday April 28th, 2008

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Episode 042: Deploying Rails on Slicehost

From sd.rb podcast, 8 months ago, 0 comments Comment

Jared Kuolt shows how to quickly deploy your Rails application to a Slicehost VPS. This talk covers installing MySQL, Apache, Rails and Mongrel, as well as deployment using Capistrano.
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Episode 041: MySQL Clustering

From sd.rb podcast, 8 months ago, 0 comments Comment

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 databas

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