state_machine 0.10.0 was released

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...

Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as our standard authorization solution.

jQuery as new default Javascript library, streaming response support, attr_accessible with roles, prepared statements, easier migrations.

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...

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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• 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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We released a new version of our rails_state_machine gem. The release contains mainly a breaking change on how errors in state transitions are handled.

Please have a look at the [changelog](htt...

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 ...

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...

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...