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Episode #318 - October 30th, 2012

Gregg Pollack Jay McGavren

Passenger 4 beta, new Rails 4 features, some great Ruby learning resources and more!

This episode is sponsored by Gaslight Software. Learn backbone, coffeescript, and jasmine in SF, December 3-5.

• Mastering Backbone
• Passenger 4 B1
• Turbolinks
• Ruby Sockets
• Metrika
• Strong Parameters
• Open Source
• Under a Microscope
• Ruby Bits 2
• Ruby5

Preview of Rails 4 Strong Parameters

So one of the mantras of the Rails community is to always use attr_accessible... If you don’t use it, anyone can make assignments to any attribute on your model by hacking the form parameters. Rails 4 is going to fix this vulnerability with “Strong Parameters”. Gant Laborde has written a blog post covering the forthcoming changes.

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