Episode #97 Lieutenant Commander Boson reporting for duty. Get the ring tone.

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

• RPM For Java

  RPM 2 Now supports Java and Ruby 1.9.

• nginx push module

  Nginx HTTP push module – Turn nginx into a long-polling message queuing
  HTTP push server.

• Railscast episode on Formtastic

  Ryan Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.

• The Art of the Library

  Wesley Beary posts on the Engine Yard blog about what makes a good library.

• TDD in Objective-C with MacRuby

  Joshua Ballanco walks through creating a pig latin translator in objective c using MacRuby to TDD.

• Sunspot

  Sunspot exposes all of Solr’s most powerful search features using an API of elegant DSLs. That means robust, flexible fulltext search with no boolean queries and no string programming.

• Inploy

  Inploy is another way of doing deployments with different opinions than Capistrano.

• Full Text Search on Heroku using Texticle

  Aaron Patterson posts on the Tender Lovemaking blog about using Texticle to do full text searching using Postgres

• Boson

  Gabriel Horner put up a tutorial on using Boson to create commands for watching GitHub repos on your shell.

• DeVIL

  DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics format. It also provides some basic image manipulation functionality.

• How to Start Sub-processes part 3

  Avdi posts on the Devver blog part 3 of starting sub-processes in Ruby.

• rails_on_pg

  This is timesaver for middle/large Rails application which used PostgreSQL as database. Create/drop Views, Functions, Triggers, Foreign keys in your migrations using ruby syntax.

• Mappoint/VE

  Using the new handsoap gem, Jeff wraps all the nastiness of the VE and Mappoint web SDK SOAP into two very easy to use gems.

  http://github.com/jmhodges/mappoint
  http://github.com/jmhodges/virtualearth