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Episode #253 - March 9th, 2012

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Closing out the github mass assignment issue, bundler 1.1, font-awesome, dust-assets, flexible searching with solr and sunspot, and a bunch o' news about writing api-only rails apps in this edition of Ruby5.

This episode is sponsored by New Relic. New Relic gives you performance monitoring, tracking, and reporting of your web applications.

  • New Relic
  • GitHub SSH Keys
  • rails_best_practices
  • mass assignment guard
  • Bundler 1.1
  • dust-assets
  • Flexible Searching
  • API APP Guidelines
  • lightrail
  • acts_as_nested_interval
  • rubeque
  • Ruby5

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Whether you agree with the Rails core team or not, last week's high profile mass assignment problem wasn't a security flaw in Rails - it was operating as designed. If you didn't realize that, you might be vulnerable to the same problem. the Rails Best Practices gem has been updated to flag this issue for you in your own code.

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May 14th, 2013

From multi to native json, JoyBox hits 1.0, ContextValidations and FormObjects, teaching kids at KidsCodeCamp, Plataformatec gems, tab navigation with Tabulous 2 and Git Real 2 online course.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.