Rails Envy Podcast – Episode #086: 07/08/2009

Episode 86. We bring you the latest news in the Ruby and Rails world. This week features co-host Nathan Bibler, tequila, a singing robot, and a Hoedown. What more could you ask for?

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Show Notes

  • Ruby Tube – Ruby Videos/Screencasts

  • Rumblestiltskin – Rails Rumble Ideas

  • Sitemap Generator Plugin

  • Rails Black Box Testing Complex Models

  • Get Your API Right

  • Patron: a Ruby HTTP client library

  • MacRuby Drops GIL, Gains Concurrent Threads

  • A Dozen or so ways to start Sub-processes in Ruby

  • How to create small, unique tokens in Ruby

  • Apps for America 2

  • Rails Rescue Handbook

  • Ruby Hoedown

  • Upcoming Railscamp Events

  • Hampton’s Ruby Survey

  • Haml & Sass 2.2 Released

  • Anemone – Spidering Websites

  • Driving Business Processes in Ruby

  • Rails Magazine – Issue #3

  • 6 Reasons to use Webbynode

  • The Humans are Dead & Binary Solo

    • Update: After pushing out the podcast, I received the following Tweet from @thoughtbot:

    LOL, see.. thoughtbot’s can sing!