by Paul Elliott on August 1, 2014

The soothing yet informative voices of Lynn and I are back again to bring you the latest news in the Ruby and Rails communities. Here is a quick roundup of what's new in this episode of the Ruby5 podcast.

http://ruby5.envylabs.com/episodes/522-episode-485-august-1st-2014

http://www.gotealeaf.com/blog/deploy-rails-apps-with-capistrano

Kevin Wang from Tealeaf Academy sets the bar high yet again with another feature-filled blog post on capistrano. If you are new to using it for deployments or are wondering how any why it does some of the things it does, this step-by-step tutorial will certainly give you a good education.

http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2014/07/28/4-simple-memoization-patterns-in-ruby-and-one-gem

This blog post from Justin Weiss talks about the different ways of memoizing method return values. If you're making the same call twice, take a look at this article and learn how to cache those responses!

http://mocaroni.com/documentation

Rocketeer Micah Cooper just released a new service that lets you collaborate with your team on API contracts. You can work together on the URLs and request/response bodies to build the most beautiful services imaginable. Check it out!

https://github.com/maxmeyer/middleman-presentation

A new layer on top of the always fantastic middleman gem lets you easily build HTML-based presentations using your favorite templating language.

http://rubyconf.org/registration

Registration is open for RailsConf 2014! This November we can all descend upon San Diego to talk about ruby and ruby-related things!

So that's it for this episode of Ruby5. If you haven't already, subscribe to the podcast and keep yourself up to date. Thanks for listening!