Ruby Podcasts
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Railscasts: #200 Rails 3 Beta and RVM
Get started with Rails 3.0 Beta and install Ruby 1.9.1 using RVM: Ruby Version Manager. Stay tuned to the end for a challenge on giving back to open source.
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Railscasts: #164 Cron in Ruby
Cron is great for handling recurring tasks, but it is an external dependency with a crazy syntax. In this episode I show you how to use Whenever to create cron jobs with Ruby.
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Railscasts: #153 PDFs with Prawn
Prawn is an excellent Ruby library for generating PDF documents. Learn how to use it along with the Prawnto plugin in this episode.
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Railscasts: #220 PDFKit
Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit.
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Railscasts: #238 Mongoid
Mongoid is a polished, high-level Ruby gem for accessing MongoDB. Here I cover installation, adding fields, validations, associations, and keys.
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Railscasts: #135 Making a Gem
Want to create a Ruby Gem instead of a Rails plugin? In this episode I will walk you through creating a gem to extend Rails.
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Railscasts: #195 My Favorite Web Apps in 2009
Here I show several of my favorite web applications which I found most helpful as a Ruby developer over the past year.
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Railscasts: #69 Markaby in Helper
Do you ever need to generate HTML code in a helper method? Placing it directly in Ruby strings is not very pretty. Learn a great way to generate HTML through Markaby in this episode.
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Railscasts: #86 Logging Variables
Have you ever wanted to easily log all variables? Now you can by using some advanced Ruby concepts as shown in this episode.
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Railscasts: #290 SOAP with Savon
Communicating with a SOAP API can be a daunting task. Savon makes this easier by presenting the SOAP API through a Ruby interface.
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OnSoftware from InformIT: Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example
Learn about Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial LiveLessons Bundle which delivers instant skills, answers, and solutions from more than 18 hours of video training combined with the #1 Rails development guide, Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial.
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Railscasts: #376 JRuby Basics
JRuby is a polished and stable Ruby implementation. Here I show the basics of setting it up and executing Java from within Ruby. I also see how it compares with MRI at running threads.
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Railscasts: #358 Brakeman
The Brakeman gem will scan the Ruby code of a Rails application and alert you to common security vulnerabilities.
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Railscasts: #354 Squeel
Squeel provides a comprehensive DSL for writing SQL queries in Ruby. It is built upon Arel giving you access to many of its powerful features.
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Railscasts: #322 RABL
RABL - Ruby API Builder Language - provides a DSL for generating JSON or XML responses in a Ruby application. Learn how to share and configure complex JSON data in this episode.
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Railscasts: #310 Getting Started with Rails
Learning Ruby on Rails can be overwhelming, especially if you are new to programming. Here I will take you on a tour through various resources to help get started with Rails.
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OnMicrosoft from InformIT: Inside IronRuby with Jimmy Schementi
Jimmy Schementi and Ted Neward discuss IronRuby, a Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET which relies heavily on Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime.
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OnSoftware from InformIT: OnSoftware - The cost benefit equation for Ruby with Glenn Vanderburg - Part 2
Glenn Vanderburg discusses Static versus Dynamic typing in Ruby.
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OnSoftware from InformIT: OnSoftware - The cost benefit equation for Ruby with Glenn Vanderburg - Part 1
Glenn Vanderburg describes the cost benefit equation for Ruby.
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OnSoftware from InformIT: OnSoftware - Inside (Scala) Scalable Language with Bill Venners - Part 2
In part 2, Bill Venners illustrates Scala's conciseness and expressiveness, giving it the feel of dynamic languages such as Python or Ruby, but also providing a rich static type system that helps programmers prevent errors.
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