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Episode 042. I apologize for the delays.

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• Enumerating Enumerable
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ruby
• Building Static Web Sites with Webby
• Quickly Switch Between Rails Versions
• Faster From XML
• Dizzy CheatSheets
• ViewGem
• Yahoo! Music Battle of the APIs
• Plugin: Localized_dates
• Localizing Rails
• Prawn 0.1.0: Fast, Nimble PDF Generation in Pure Ruby
• Reliable Ruby timeouts with SystemTimer
• UW Extension Ruby Classes
• OEmbed Rails plugin
• Document matching in Ruby
• Git deployment workflow

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Jason and I hit up the Ruby Hoedown last weekend and I did my video bit, putting together a montage of the proceedings for those who didn’t make it:

Ruby Hoedown in 10 minutes

You can also click one of the following links if you’re interested in seeing one particular person, but I highly recommend just watching the whole thing, it’s only 10 minutes for heaven sake!

Bryan Liles, Chris Wanstrath, David Black, Gregg Pollack, Jason Seifer, Jeremy McAnally, Jim Remsik, Jim Weirich, Joe O’Brien, Obie Fernandez, Rein Henrichs, Rick Bradley, Robert Dempsey, Yehuda Katz, and Yossef Mendelssohn

Anyone out there interested in having me do this for their conference/event? hehe… Hey, I can dream right? Talking about professional video, the Confreaks guys were there, so I suspect we’ll see full video coverage of the conference in a couple of days. When they do post them I’ll link up their videos as well.

Gregg and I are at the Ruby Hoedown in Huntsville, AL and I thought I'd take notes and give a summary of the talks. Gregg is going to do one of his summary videos in the next few days but I thought some people might prefer actually reading about it. I was going to live blog this but started late and couldn't type my notes all in time. Enjoy.

Episode 041. Short and sweet this week. Like us.

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In this episode:

• Hyperactive Resource
• Testing named_scope with Shoulda
• Hoptoad
• It's an HTTParty and Everyone is invited
• Rails:Initial Release 0.1
• EhCache for JRuby
• Config Toolkit:configtoolkit 2.2.0 Released
• PeepCode Rails on Facebook PDF
• Integrating Design Drafts into your Rails app
• openSteam 0.9.1 released
• Get your site indexed by search engines
• Public Service Announcement: Initializers
• Free tickets to Ruby Hoedown
• Hampton Catlin's Ruby Survey
• Introducing ActivePresenter
• Phusion Passenger and FiveRuns Manage

Episode 040. Delayed because of my move. Apologies all around. Thanks for your patience!

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In this episode:

• Redcloth 4.0.1 Released
• WSO2 Web Services Framework for Ruby - 1.1.0
• Merb road to 1.0
• Upcoming books on Ruby & Rails
• DocBox
• ActiveRecord Full Text Search Using Xapian
• Kawaii - A web-based utility like script/console
• IronRuby at Oscon
• Converting a subversion repo to Git
• PSA: Don't forget about RubyForge
• Radiant CMS:Radiant 0.6.8 "Incise" Released
• FiveRuns Manage adds Rails app Health Dashboard
• Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails
• Deploying a Drupal Site with Capistrano 2
• Nginx + HaProxy gotcha
• Mod_rails and full page caching with a custom cache location
• YUI Combo Handler Service

Last week at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) I decided to put together a video attempting to capture the essence of the event (I did something similar with Railsconf in 36 minutes earlier this year).

I ended up with is 37 minute video of great speakers including the keynoters Tim O'Reilly, Damien Conway, Tim Bray, Robert Lefkowitz, David Recordon, Nathan Torkington, and Danese Cooper.

Oscon in 37 minutes

Here is everyone shown in the video. You should really watch the whole thing, but if you want to skip to a certain person just click their name:

Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Chris DiBona, Adam Keys, Kevin Scaldeferri, Akkana Peck, John Goerzen, David 'Lefty' Schlesing, Clinton Nixon, Chris Messina, Brian Sam-Bodden, Rod Cope, Jesse Vincent, Darren Hoch, Joey Stanford, Nick Barcet, Gavin Doughtie, Jim Brandt, Ben Bleything, Theo Schlossnagle, Wen Huang, Robert 'r0ml' Lefkowitz, Ryan Briones, Matt Raible, Doug Judd, Vik Olliver, Steve Souders, Clint Talbert, Tim O'Reilly, Leslie Hawthorn, Nathan Torkington, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Damian Conway, Simon Willison, Dan Mosedale, Jason Hunter, Tim Bray, David Recordon, Scott Kveton, Stephen Lau, Danese Cooper, Anthony Baxter, ongallery, Maker Media, and Edd Dumbill.

Thanks to everyone who gave me their 30 seconds. Sorry if I filmed you but you didn't make it into this video, I had to cut it down to the vids that were short and clear.

If you're wondering how this was produced:

• $150 Flip Video.
• Edited with iMovie 2008.
• Exported from iMovie in mp4 (since that's the format the videos are from the flip).
• The audio levels were all over the place, so I edited the finished audio track in Pro Tools.
• Threw together a song in garage band.
• Recombined the audio track with the video using Quicktime.
• Uploaded to viddler.
• Did my homework, and found all the links for the talks.

We were just holding out on you. There's one more after this one but it's not done yet.

Episode 039. This podcast was done live and in Portland, OR at OSCON, even though we don't talk about it at all. I love everyone.

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In this episode:

• timeago jQuery plugin
• Mack Framework 0.6.0
• Proto.Menu - Right click for prototype
• jQuery Startup (with Rails)
• Centostrano 0.1 - deprec 2
• Cookie handling in multi-domain applications in Ruby on Rails
• The complete guide to setting up Starling and Workling
• EditorKicker
• New on Edge Rails - Nested Model Mass Assignment
• JRuby 1.1.3
• Ruby on Rails l18n core api
• Grab inbound search terms in Rails
• Comparing Ultrasphinx and ThinkingSphinx
• Mulling over Rails Full Text Search Options
• Phusion passenger 2.0.2
• Autumn IRC Bot
• Resurrecting libxml-ruby
• Ruby programming is an Art
• Running Applications in IronRuby
• Mobile_fu
• Rockstar Memcaching
• PSA
• MobileFU
• Using SWFUpload with Rails

Oh yeah, we were going to talk about is_ratable but didn't because there wasn't much to say. Check it out if you need a rating plugin.

For those of you who don't consistently listen to the Rails Envy podcast, here's a story that's worth a good laugh.

The Backstory: A few weeks ago Jason put together a Rails Envy Voicemail number so people could call in and leave messages about the podcast. We encouraged people to leave their feedback, let us know about stories, or ask any questions they wanted answered.

Last week "R. Elliot", a regular listener and commenter, left us this voicemail. I have to hand it to R. Elliot, he gave us a great laugh and gave us some great material.
Length: 1:14

Later when we were recording the podcast, Jason recommended I make a dance remix of the phone call. I couldn't resist, so:

I whipped out Garage Band, found some good hip hop beats, and here is the awesomeness of what resulted.
Length: 1:37

Let me know what you think, and feel free to check out our most recent Rails Envy Podcast. Maybe even leave your own crazy voicemail at 407-409-8440.

Episode 037. If you like the song at the end let us know and we'll post it tomorrow as a separate download. I'm not going to say any more. You'll have to listen all the way through to understand.

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In this episode:

• BackgroundRB 1.0.4
• Rails Summit Brazil
• DataFabric Gem
• Introducing Functor
• RandExp Gem
• Mod_Rails Hosting Two Months on
• Browsing Git Repositories on RubyForge
• Supercharged Ruby-Git
• DRYing up Rails Controllers: Polymorphic and Super Controllers
• Testing is Overrated
• Adding Google Maps to Rails
• Camptweet
• Stop Exception Notifications With The ZombieShotgun
• iPhone 3g contest for Rails Documentation Patches
• Three database Rails 2.1 Bugs

Episode 037. This week's podcast delay brought to you by a certain unnamed cable company. They're [Redacted]-tastic!

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• Ruby news from RubyKaigi 2008

• How to get a Ruby Job

• Insoshi: Rails 2.1 Case Study

• Testing IPhone Apps with Ruby

• Clone Pastie with Sinatra & DataMapper 0.9

• Find tests more easily in your Rails test.log

• Global Setup In RSpec or How To Add Logging For Specs

• Rolling a JRuby desktop application

• The Road to Hell is Paved with Caching

• Using Ruby for IMAP with Gmail

• Pretty Blocks in Rails Views

• Speed up slow Rails development in Vista

• Sexy Forms for Merb

• Railscamp 08

• Public Service Announcement: Don't Forget to Clear Out Your Rails Session Data

Episode 036. We're trying something new with the first ever Rails Envy public service announcement. Well, new if you don't count the PSA videos we just put out.

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In this episode:

• Rails Scaling to 1 Billion Views Per month

• Faster RubyGem Deploys

• Passenger Pref Pane for OSX

• Phusion Passenger 2.0.1

• ShoeFests with Why the Lucky Stiff

• Merb Worker Background Tasks

• Holler

• Shout

• Make your own IM bot in Ruby
  Make your own IM bot in Ruby, and interface it with your Rails app
  Jabber Bot

• Subdomain Fu

• Git remote branches

• Add Gotchas to Rails-Doc

• Railsconf, maybe not Vegas

• DB2 Support for Rails 2.1

• State Machine in Rails core

Episode 035. Living on the Edge is back this week thanks to Chu Yeow. Also this week I put together an out-takes reel (which you can find at the bottom of this post). These are a few items that got cut from the original podcast, because... well.. they weren't appropriate. You'll want to listen to the podcast before you listen to the out-takes, or they may not make any sense.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• Ruby Security Vulnerabilities

• RubyGems 1.2.0

• Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What's New

• All the Jours from Dr. Nic

• New RubyStack Released

• Ruby Community Announcements

• New Rails-doc.org website

• Rails Inside

• Rails 2.1 Gotchas

• 15 Questions to ask during a Ruby Interview

• Using jQuery with Rails

• awesome_fields plugin

• Splunk your log files

• Upload Progress w/Apache and Passenger

• Ruby conferences and tracks

• Living on the Edge part 1

• Rails Envy Podcast 35 Out-takes

In case you don't get the Yao joke in the beginning here's a link to the Yao Visa commercial.

Episode 034. I hope no one freaked out about the podcast being late like I did that time my girlfriend was late.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• Capistrano 2.4.0

• Gem Doc Shortcuts

• Phusion Passenger 2.0 RC1

• Ruby Enterprise Edition - Tada!

• MagLev talk at Railsconf

• Bind DLZ on Rails

• Rails 2.1 with better caching

• Rails based JSON-P

• Google AJAX Libraries
  Google AJAX Libraries API - blog post by Google
  Using Google Ajax Libraries API with Ruby on Rails

• Recovering lost commits with git

• Waiting for a Factory Girl

• acts_as_taggable_on

• Writing Macros in RSpec

• EngineYard Express

Episode 033. Jason is finally back this week, and we've got plenty of stories to cover! Also, we are now looking for work. If you are looking for some customized Rails training for your team, need someone to look over your code (Code Review), or want to pair program for a day, definitely drop us a line.

Jason's Note: Thank you to everyone who emailed me while I was gone. I'm still going through all of that email but will get back to everyone. Also, I would like to apologize in advance for getting a song stuck in everyone's head. I'm sorry. But I'm also not sorry.

The Rails Envy podcast is sponsored this week by Engine Yard, fully managed hosting for your Rails applications. Learn more at EngineYard.com

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In this episode:

• Ruby 1.8.7

• JRuby 1.1.2

• MagLev
  MagLev - Official site (no info)
  Chad Fowler on MagLev
  Obie Fernandez on MagLev

• Coding Font Roundup

• Guide to Mashing Up Remote DBs / Screen scraping

• Composite Primary Keys

• Lockdown Gem

• Classy Inheritance

• Fu-Fu: Profanity Filter

• Improving BlueCloth

• Fuzed and EC2

• Ruby EventMachine

• Deferred Requests with Merb, Ebb, and Thin

• Cry: Parse Trees

• 28 mod_rails resources

• Converting and Displaying Videos in Rails

• Mysql over SSL to ActiveRecord

• Railsfriend