Episode #092. I’m joined again by Dan Benjamin and we have quite a fun time. You may know Dan from his compiling Ruby, Rails, and MySQL guides, cork’d, and most recently Playgrounder. We’ve got a ton of news this week and I promise to have a song stuck in your head by the time you finish.

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Show Notes

• Filestore Cache Expires_in Plugin

  Adam Salter releases a Rails plugin that adds time based expiration to the Rails file store.

• Cucumber: Step Argument Transforms

  Larry Diehl walks through adding step argument transformations to Cucumber with Dave Astels.

• Using Cucumber to Test a Multilingual App

  Clemens Kofler explores some different methods for testing your multilingual app using Cucumber.

• How to avoid the dog-pile effect on your Rails app

  Hugo Baraúna shows how to avoid the dogpile effect in your Rails app with the SmartMemcacheStore class.

• Eval Isn’t Quite Pure Evil

  James Edward Gray points out that using eval() in your code might not always be "pure evil" and some interesting discussion ensues.

• Growl 1.2b3

  A new beta of Growl for Snow Leopard users.

• Laminate

  Laminate is a system for executing user-written templates built using the Lua languge. Templates written in Lua can be executed securely to generate HTML. For end-users, Laminate offers a simple, convenient, yet powerful template language. For applications, Laminate makes it easy to safely expose data and functions to be executed by user templates.

• CloudCrowd – Parallel Processing for the Rest of Us

  CloudCrowd is a gem that lets you do parallel processing using several computers. It’s got a web interface and works over a REST-JSON API.

• ActiveRecord Attribute Normalization (Rails Plugin)

  Michael Deering has written a plug-in that lets you pass a block to normalize the attributes of a model before being saved to the database.

• RequestSentry plugin

  RequestSentry provides a DSL for your controller to reject requests (via “400 Bad Request”) that supply malicious or malformed
  parameters

• Foreigner

  Rails does not come with methods to add foreign keys. Foreigner introduces a few methods to your migrations for adding and removing foreign key constraints.

• Canonizing pseudo-slugs in Rail

  If you use pseudo-slugs in your Rails app, Henrik Nyh shows you a technique for getting canonical redirects in case the urls are linked incorrectly.

• My Emacs for Rails

  Santiago Pastorino posts his emacs config tailored for Rails development.

• validates_timeliness version 2.2 released

  validates_timeliness version 2.2 has been released with Ruby 1.9 support and a fix for Shoulda.