Archives of past Articles

2011

• Reversible Migrations 06 May, 2011
• ActiveRecord Identity Map 21 Apr, 2011
• Custom ActiveRecord Attribute Serialization 09 Mar, 2011
• Template Inheritance 12 Jan, 2011

2010

• The Skinny on Scopes (Formerly named_scope) 23 Feb, 2010
• Notes From The First Rails Online Conference 18 Feb, 2010
• Rails 3 Resources 10 Feb, 2010
• EdgeRails.Info Is Live 08 Feb, 2010

2009

• Set Flash in redirect_to 20 Dec, 2009
• Independent Model Validators 11 Aug, 2009
• Default RESTful Rendering 10 Aug, 2009
• Cleaner RESTful Controllers w/ respond_with 06 Aug, 2009
• Database Seeding 13 May, 2009
• Touching 20 Apr, 2009
• Batched Find 23 Feb, 2009
• Nested Object Forms 01 Feb, 2009
• HTTP Digest Authentication 30 Jan, 2009

2008

• Dynamic Scope Methods 29 Dec, 2008
• Merb! 23 Dec, 2008
• Rails Metal 18 Dec, 2008
• Application Generators 11 Dec, 2008
• No More Formatted Routes 27 Nov, 2008
• Object.try 20 Nov, 2008
• render Stops Being High-Maintenance 20 Nov, 2008
• Application.rb Duality is no More 19 Nov, 2008
• Default Scoping 18 Nov, 2008
• :except and :only Routing Options 13 Nov, 2008
• Even Better Conditional GET Support 25 Oct, 2008
• Rails 2.2 Released - Summary of Features 25 Oct, 2008
• You Smell That? 23 Oct, 2008
• Connection Pools 07 Sep, 2008
• Shallow Routes 07 Sep, 2008
• Mailer Layouts 07 Sep, 2008
• Simpler Conditional Get Support (ETags) 14 Aug, 2008
• Standard Internationalization Framework 22 Jul, 2008
• Nested Model Mass Assignment 19 Jul, 2008
• Get Your Metaclass 19 Jul, 2008
• Easy Memoization 16 Jul, 2008
• Easy Join Table Conditions 07 Jul, 2008
• Collection Partial Variable Naming 07 Jul, 2008
• Custom Length Validation Tokenizer 07 Jul, 2008
• DB Console 13 May, 2008
• What’s New in Edge Rails - In Japanese! 11 Apr, 2008
• UTC-based Migration Versioning 02 Apr, 2008
• Gem Dependencies 01 Apr, 2008
• Partial Updates 01 Apr, 2008
• Dirty Objects 31 Mar, 2008
• Has One :through 24 Mar, 2008
• Has Finder Functionality 24 Mar, 2008
• Easier Timezones 25 Jan, 2008
• What’s New in Edge Rails - In Chinese! 08 Jan, 2008

2007

• Pluggable Controller Caching 19 Dec, 2007
• Pre-Environment Load Hook 18 Nov, 2007
• Fixtures Just Got a Whole Lot Easier 26 Oct, 2007
• Filters get Tweaked 22 Oct, 2007
• Rails 2.0 Preview Release is Here 01 Oct, 2007
• Your DB Adapter May Have Left the Building 30 Sep, 2007
• Logging Gets a Little Snappier 25 Sep, 2007
• Specify Plugin Load Ordering 24 Sep, 2007
• Better Exception Handling 24 Sep, 2007
• Better Cross-Site Request Forging Prevention 24 Sep, 2007
• Validations Now :allow_blank 05 Sep, 2007
• Partials Get Layouts 03 Aug, 2007
• Use Rake to List Your Routes 02 Jul, 2007
• No More (conventional) Pagination 11 Jun, 2007
• Nested Resource RESTful URL Builder 06 Jun, 2007
• Collection Fixtures 05 Jun, 2007
• New Database Rake Tasks 29 May, 2007
• validates_numericality_of Gets Pimped 29 May, 2007
• ActiveResource Finder Update and Custom Headers 07 May, 2007
• Bringin’ Sexy Back 06 May, 2007
• RESTful Routing Updates 06 May, 2007
• ActiveResource Gets Custom Methods 26 Apr, 2007
• render Now 70% More Betterer 25 Apr, 2007
• ActiveResource Becomes a First Class Citizen 24 Apr, 2007
• A More Flexible to_xml 13 Apr, 2007
• RESTful Routes Get a New Custom Delimiter 29 Mar, 2007
• Object Transactions Are Out 20 Mar, 2007
• A Better Way to Access Your Helpers 26 Feb, 2007
• Source Code Annotations 26 Feb, 2007
• Stop Littering In Your Environment File 23 Feb, 2007
• ActiveRecord Caching Provided in Actions 22 Feb, 2007
• Cookie Based Sessions are the New Default 21 Feb, 2007
• .rhtml and .rxml to Die a Slow and Painful Death 21 Feb, 2007
• Expanded Caching Scope 21 Feb, 2007
• Mime::Type Convenience Methods 15 Feb, 2007
• ActiveRecord Explicit Caching 07 Feb, 2007
• ActionMailer::Base.server_settings Deprecated 31 Jan, 2007
• 1.month.from_now.no_longer.effed 26 Jan, 2007

2006

• New Http Authentication Plugin - And a Plea to Contribute 04 Dec, 2006
• ActiveResource Pulled from v1.2, World Weeps 20 Nov, 2006
• I Smell Version 1.2… 14 Nov, 2006
• Prettier Error Pages! 10 Oct, 2006
• Around Filters are Here 22 Sep, 2006
• Get Your RSS & Atom Feeds for Free 14 Sep, 2006
• An Interactive Capistrano Shell 11 Sep, 2006
• An Explicit Locals Hash 05 Sep, 2006
• ActiveResource Updates 05 Sep, 2006
• Build URLs in Your ActionMailers (and other non-controllers) 23 Aug, 2006
• Deprecated Finders 17 Aug, 2006
• Simply RESTful Support - And How to Use It 01 Aug, 2006
• Explicit Deprecation 28 Jul, 2006
• Nothing, Cause Tracs is Down 18 Jul, 2006
• The Ins and Outs of ActiveResource 30 Jun, 2006
• Rails v1.1.3 Release Fast Approaching 27 Jun, 2006
• Create a Hash from XML 27 Jun, 2006
• Some Handy Enumerable helpers 27 Jun, 2006
• Pessimistic Locking 27 Jun, 2006
• find_or_initialize_by_… 26 Jun, 2006
• Mongrel Support 26 Jun, 2006
• Cleaning up Your Plugins 06 Jun, 2006
• Convenient Finder Parameter Hashes 06 Jun, 2006
• Using Collections of Records as the “IN” SQL Condition 01 Jun, 2006
• Parameter Driven Response-Type Determination 01 Jun, 2006
• Routing Refactored 01 Jun, 2006
• RESTful Method Support in Link Helpers 30 May, 2006
• Observer Generators 23 May, 2006