In this episode, Dan and Jason bring you a ton of news and keep it short and sweet.
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Show Notes
- Are you testing your attr_* methods? If you do, then you might want to clean up your specs with RSpec attr extensions.
- JRuby for Android JRuby for Android is an application that provides a JRuby scripting environment for Android, including an IRB shell, source code editor and script manager.
- Rakegrowl rakegrowl tells you when your rake tasks end via Growl.
- Conversational and short URLs on Rails Jason Lyons has a post on the Carsonified blog about how to generate conversational URLs in Rails such as /events/in/chicago.
- Polymorphic association support added to searchlogic
- Active Record Query Interface 3.0 Pratik Naik goes over the new query interface and deprecations in Active Record 3.0.
- Getting Up To Speed with Rails 3 Gabe da Silveira walks through getting an app updated and on to Rails 3.
- The Path to Rails 3: Approaching the upgrade Jeremy McAnally posts about upgrading to Rails 3 and the changes involved.
- New ActionMailer API in Rails 3.0
- Vanity Vanity is an Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails.
- Interview with Matz InfoQ has an interview with Matz about Ruby, Functional Programming and Programming Languages Design.
- A Simple Pattern for Ruby's inject method
- WTF The WTF gem provides a Ruby class to convert between standard time and World Time Format.
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