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In this episode we discuss how to Backbone Views With Rails jQuery-ujs, Shared Mustache Templates for Rails 3, Rails Footnotes 3.7.7 released, Ruby MMO programming challenge, Ruby-plsql 0.5.0 released, and How to Use Bundler Instead of Rvm Gemsets

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Backbone Views with jquery-ujs


In this blog post, Russ Jones shows a quick example of how Backbone views can listen for jquery-ujs custom events.

Shared Mustache Templates For Rails 3


In this blog post, Alexey Vasiliev shows how to share mustache templates between server and client in your Rails 3 applications using the smt_rails gem.

Rails Footnotes 3.7.7


Rails-footnotes is a gem that adds some great context and debugging information to the bottom of your rails-generated web pages. It shows all kinds of info from cookies, to environments, to partials used to render the page, to routes that created links on the page. It also links page components right into your editor.

Ruby Massively Multiplayer Online


Ruby MMO is a programming challenge in which players compete to gain the highest level in an MMO simulation.

ruby-plsql 0.5.0 released


Ruby-PL/SQL is a gem that provides a simple Ruby API for calling Oracle PL/SQL procedures. It can be used for accessing Oracle PL/SQL API procedures in legacy applications as well as creating PL/SQL unit tests using Ruby testing libraries.

Bundler instead of RVM gemsets


In this blog article, Stephen Ball goes over how you can avoid using rvm gemsets in favor of using just bundler to isolate your Ruby applications’ environment.

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