Rails Envy Podcast: The Ruby Show #104: Something New

In this monumental episode, Jason and Dan announce both the end of something old and the beginning of something new, and of course cover all the latest Ruby and Rails news.

The Ruby Show 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

• Cramp: Asynchronous Web Processing
  Pratik Naik, Rails core team member, introduces Cramp, an asynchronous ruby web framework.
• ActiveModel Update
  Yehuda Katz walks us through how to use the upcoming ActiveModel in your Ruby and Rails apps.
• AutoSprite
  AutoSprite is an easy, automated CSS image sprite creator.
• Google Closure Compiler
  Makes integrating the Google JavaScript Compiler with your Rails deployment process dead simple. Both the Google Closure Compiler API and Application are supported. Sensible defaults are provided.
• JRuby Updates
  JRuby on Android, Maven, Rake, C exts, and more. The JRuby team is ON FIRE.
• Rails and Merb Merge: The Anniversary
  Yehuda Katz posts on the Engine Yard blog about the Rails and Merb merger one year later. It's the first in a series of posts.

  http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/rails-and-merb-merge-the-anniversary-part-1-of-6/
  http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/rails-and-merb-merge-performance-part-2-of-6/
  

• Rails 3 Bug Mash
  Rails 3 is coming soon and the Do One Thing for Rails 3 project takes place on January 16th and 17th.
• Discovering Rails 3 Generators
  Jose Valim summarizes some blog posts about Rails 3 generators on the plataforma blog.
• Rails 3 install shell script
  For trying rails 3 without installing the gems.
• Riak 0.7
  Riak combines a decentralized key-value store, a flexible map/reduce engine, and a friendly HTTP/JSON query interface to provide a database ideally suited for Web applications.
• Mongo 3
  Mongo 3 rules your mongo db clusters!
• Refinery CMS
  Refinery is a new CMS in the Rails space.
• Friendly ORM
  Friendly is NoSQL with MySQL in Ruby.
• Using Geokit with Searchlogic
  Ben Johnson has written a blog post describing how to use geokit with Searchlogic.
• Ordering and comparing text in Rails and MySQL
  The Fingertips blog has a great post about comparing text in Rails and MySQL.
• Watir 1.6.5 Released
  Watir, the browser testing framework, has released version 1.6.5 which new features and improvements.
• RAFL
  Aaron on the Cohen Audio blog hsa posted the first version of RAFL - the Ruby Audio File Library which supports reading and writing wave files.
• BitNami RubyStack
  BitNami RubyStacks, easy Ruby and Rails stack for deployment, have released a new RubyStack version and 3 new RoR apps stacks: Typo, Radiant and Spree.
• Attribute Normalizer
  The attribute normalizer gem lets you use custom blocks to normalize your objects attributes. It can be used with or without ActiveRecord.
• Metric Fork
  Flyerhzm on GitHub has forked Metric Fu and incorporated the rails_best_practices gem with it.
• Mocking and Stubbing Can Be Evil
  Josh Owens goes in to why and how mocking and stubbing can be evil in an app.