Rails 3.1: Release candidate

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

We can now plug into every facet of the Rails jQuery UJS adapter, binding to custom events, and even customizing internal functions, without hacking or monkey-patching the rails.js file itself.

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".

Now allows to list transition paths from and to arbitrary states.

Sass now comes with user-defined functions, keyword arguments, list manipulation. Haml and Sass are now two separate gems.

Rails 4.0 is finally ready after a thorough process of betas and release candidates. It's an amazing new version packed with new goodies and farewells to old features past their expiration date.