state_machine 0.10.0 was released
Now allows to list transition paths from and to arbitrary states.
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Why developers should be force-fed state machines
Most web applications contain several examples of state machines, including accounts and subscriptions, invoices, orders, blog posts, and many more. The problem is that you might not necessarily think of them as state machines while designing your...
makandra/consul
Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as our standard authorization solution.
Rails 3.1.0 has been released!
jQuery as new default Javascript library, streaming response support, attr_accessible with roles, prepared statements, easier migrations.
How to make changes to a Ruby gem (as a Rails developer)
At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads), active_type (> 1M downloads), and geordi (> 200k downloads)
Developing a Ruby gem is different from developing Rails applications, w...
state_machine: Test whether an object can take a transition
When using state_machine you sometimes need to know whether an object may execute a certain transition. Let's take an arbitrary object such as a blog article as an example that has those states:
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RailsStateMachine 2.2.0 released
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Added: State machine can now use the
:prefix-option to avoid name collision if you define multiple state machines on the same model, and use state names more than once- Previously
state_machine-definitions like this:...
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markbates/coffeebeans
When CoffeeScript was added to Rails 3.1 they forgot one very important part, the ability to use it when responding to JavaScript (JS) requests!
In Rails 3.1 it’s incredibly easy to build your application’s JavaScript using CoffeeScript, however ...
wycats/artifice
Artifice allows you to replace the Net::HTTP subsystem of Ruby with an equivalent that routes all requests to a Rack application.
You can use Sinatra, raw Rack, or even Rails as your application, allowing you to build up an equivalent to the remo...
How to get the hostname of the current machine in Rails or a Ruby script
Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this:
>> Socket.gethostname
=> "happycat"
That should work right away for your Rails application. For plain Ruby, you first need to do:
requi...
What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?
Yesterday, there was a blog post entitled “What the Hell is Happening to Rails” that stayed at the number one spot on Hacker News for quite a while. The post and many (but not most) the comments on the post reflect deep-seated concern about the re...