Rails Envy Podcast: Rails Envy Podcast – Episode 102

Episode #102 Introducing Fancy Buttons! Also check out @railstips on Twitter.

The Rails Envy podcast is brought to you this week by NewRelic. NewRelic provides RPM which is a plugin for rails that allows you to monitor and quickly diagnose problems with your Rails application in real time. Check them out at NewRelic.com.

Show Notes

• MagLev Alpha Released

  Peter Cooper writes about the recently released MagLev alpha over on the Ruby Inside blog.

• Passenger 2.2.7 Released

  Phusion has released passenger version 2.2.7 which includes many bug fixes.

• HTML Sanitization in Rails

  David posts on the Viget Labs blog about doing HTML sanitization in the Markdown library.

• SASS now supports Rack

  Sass now has native support for all Rack-based frameworks.

• FancyButtons!

  Brandon Mathis has released Fancy Buttons, a SASS plugin to give you great looking semantic buttons.

• Amp Version Control

  Amp is a version control system written in Ruby. It currently supports Mercurial.

• Temporals

  A uniquely powerful Ruby parser for Temporal Expressions. Type out your recurring time patterns in plain english, and the computer can understand it.

• Setup Ruby Enterprise Edition, nginx and Passenger on Ubuntu

  Antonio Cangiano has written a tutorial on getting a production Rails stack up and running on Ubuntu.

• Caliper

  Caliper is hosted Ruby Metrics from the Devver crew.

• Reflection

  Reflection is designed to keep your development system in sync with your production system’s files and database (by dumping). It uses a shared git repository to store these files, which allows you to mirror your production environment without the need of direct access to your production servers.

• Easy_esi

  Michael Grosser has released easy esi, which lets you render partials using ESI. This allows you to have cached pages with dynamic partials.

• Rails Best Practices Gem

  rails_best_practices is a gem to check quality of rails app files according to ihower’s presentation Rails Best Practices from Kungfu RailsConf in Shanghai China.

• Pancake Stacks

  Matt Allen sent along word that Dan Neighman has created fully mountable nested rack applications called pancake stacks.