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When you upload your latest app to a production Web server and open it up to the world, you're really throwing your app to the elements - good and bad. If you don't pay any attention to security whatsoever, you're…
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One of the big surprises and accomplishments is the fact that Unobtrusive Javascript made it into Rails 3. At first, we thought UJS wasn’t going to be included in Rails 3. Well,…
The Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist is a 15 point "quality checklist" for Rails developers to run against their Rails applications by Matthew Paul Moore. It's a year old, so predates Rails 2.2 and 2.3, but it recently made the…
Chad Fowler surveyed his Twitter audience and came up with 20 Rails Development No-No's. It makes for entertaining reading.
In short, people hate:
- Code in views
- Bad tabbing / spacing indentation
- Lack of tests
- Misuse of Single Table Inheritance
- Poor exception handling
- Ruby idioms they don't understand
- Rails idioms…
A few months ago Mike Gunderloy wrote 3 Plugins for Safer ActiveRecord Deletions for Rails Inside and mentioned acts_as_paranoid, a plugin that flags ActiveRecord objects as deleted without actually deleting them (this is useful if you might need to "undo" the…
Rails 2.3 is not yet released but has become extremely popular to use already in its "edge" form. The official release will be available in the next couple of weeks (so I am told) and one of the most exciting…
In his "What's New in Edge Rails" series, Ryan Daigle has just written about "default scoping." You're probably familiar with regular named scopes on Rails models, but now there's a default_scope method that defines a scope that exists by default on find methods.
Example:
class…
For anyone who's struggled at how to obtain the maximum performance in a Rails application on limited hardware- the good guys over at Rails Spikes have posted an informative article with some tips on implementing page caching in a Rails application…
Derek Haynes has written "4 Simple Steps to Detect & Fix Slow Rails Requests," an excellent guide to figuring out what's causing your Rails app to slow down, and what to do about it. The main argument is that Rails…
Rob Anderton has put together an easy-to-read walkthrough of some of the new caching features in Rails 2.1. One of the coolest new features is that Rails provides an abstraction to using the back-end caching features (whether ultimately provided by…
The definitive Rails reference - a gazllion pages long and awesome throughout. A true Rails "bible."
An awesomely illustrated Rails book for beginners - a great way to learn Rails
The 3rd edition of the canonical Rails book from Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails himself.