Rails jQuery UJS: Now Interactive

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 ...

It is common in Rails 3.0 applications that you want to provide default views for a group of controllers. Let’s say you have a bunch of controllers inside the Admin namespace and you would like each action to fallback to a default template. So if ...

There is a problem with AJAX response handling for Rails 3 remote links and forms in Internet Explorer. This problem affects applications still using jQuery 1.4.2.

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

Recently, we had an interesting lunch-break with the rails 3.1. asset-pipeline in production mode. Daniel Zahn made a blogpost about our journey, precompiling assets, fingerprinting, Haml, Sass & Compass and what he calls "the dark heinous hutch".

Wrapping a string in this class gives you a prettier way to test for equality.

We are changing our name from Hoptoad to Airbrake. You see, some folks much larger than us reached out and claimed trademark over all things related to frogs and toads and little animals of that ilk. After speaking to our lawyers we reluctanctly d...

This might eventually be fixed by Rails itself.\
Right now this is the way to have the rails_xss plugin not escape the body of ActionMailer mails.

Put this into config/initializers/mailers_without_rails_xss.rb:

The difference between .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() is not always apparent. Having a clear understanding of all the differences, though, will help us write more concise code and prevent bugs from popping up in our interactive applications.

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