rails_state_machine 1.1.2 released

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.

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

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

• 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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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...

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

If you are using the routing-filter gem in your Rails 7.1 app for managing URL segments for locales or suffixes, you will notice that the filters do no longer apply, routes are broken and the necessar...

Geordi 1.0 features a command line application geordi, that holds most of Geordi's previous commands.

New features

• command help and usage examples right within geordi (geordi help and geordi help <command>)

• **quick command a...

Webpacker is Rails' way of integrating Webpack, and version 4 has been released just a few days ago, allowing us to use Webpack 4.

I successfully upgraded an existing real-world Webpack 3 application. Below are notes on everything that I encounte...

MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running on Ruby 1.9. [1]

makandra/mongomapper is based on the "official" rails2 branch [2] which contains commits t...