Episode #104: Something new. I’m sad to say that this will be the last episode of the Rails Envy podcast. I’m happy to say that Dan and I will be doing The Ruby Show which will follow the same general flow of Rails Envy. There’s no need to update your feeds (though you can if you’d like) because the feed will redirect for the foreseeable future. We’ve also got some other fun stuff planned like The Dev Show so stay tuned!

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

• 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 Fintertips 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.