Rails 3.1.0 has been released!
jQuery as new default Javascript library, streaming response support, attr_accessible with roles, prepared statements, easier migrations.
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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.
Capybara - The missing API
The Capybara API is somewhat hard for parse for a list of methods you can call on a Capybara node. Below you can find such a list. It's all copied from the Capybara docs, so all credit goes to the Ca...
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...
Rails: When to use :inverse_of in has_many, has_one or belongs_to associations
When you have two models in a has_many, has_one or belongs_to association, the :inverse_of option in Rails tells ActiveRecord that they're two sides of the same association.
Example with a has_many / belongs_to association:
c...
Security issues with hash conditions in Rails 2 and Rails 3
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft' }). The later is nicer to read, but has horrible security implications in some versions of Ru...
Capybara 2.0 has been released
The gem author Jonas Nicklas highlights in a Google Groups post that the release
- is not backwards compatible to 1.x versions of Capybara
- does not support Ruby 1....
Rubygems: Installing the last version of rubygems that has no rubyforge_project deprecation warning
You can install rubygems 3.0.8 (released on February 18, 2020) to keep all the Gem::Specification#rubyforge_project deprecation warnings away from your development log. With Rubygems >= 3.1 this deprecation warning was introduced. While main...
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...
The Ruby Infinite Hash
How to create an infinitely nestable hash that always defaults to a new hash if a key does not map to a value.