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Episode #49 - February 9, 2010

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Last week, the Rails 3 beta was released. In this episode, we talk a bit about some of the new features, executables, and support libraries you can expect to find in the new release.

This episode is sponsored by Red Dirt Ruby Conference. A unique, two-day conference that provides content and training in the most important areas of Ruby development.

  • Red Dirt Ruby
  • The Release
  • RailsPlugins.org
  • Bundler
  • XSS and UJS
  • Generators
  • Rails 3 Beta
  • Ruby5

XSS and Unobtrusive JavaScript in Rails 3 Jump to Story

Rails 3 adds string escaping by default to your views to help protect against cross-site scripting. This is a major change from Rails 1 and 2 where you had to explicitly use the h() method. Also, Rails has been updated to use unobtrusive JavaScript when exercising the Rails view helpers. This not only gives you better usability, but it also makes Rails far more JavaScript framework agnostic.

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Easier rules for class structure, ProMotion for RubyMotion, JSON APIs in Rails 4, concurrency with Futuroscope, ActiveRecord help via Searchlight, and internationalization with haml-i18n-extractor.

May 17th, 2013

Today's episode covers a major release for minitest, some JSON standards work, a tutorial on tagging with ActiveRecord and Postgres (plus an arduino to trigger the spray paint can), a RubyMotion tutorial and a little thing called CoVim that will blow your mind.

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.