Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases and can be easily upgraded...
I’m always impressed by the continuous flow of innovation from the Rails community. Below are just a few of the highlights from the past month. These stories all came from...
So, Edge Rails is still chugging right along. There are new and interesting fixes, changes, and refactors going on all of the time. So, lets take a look at just...
RubyEnRails 2009 goes down this 30/31 October in Amsterdam. Talks are in English and Dutch. RubyEnRails has been all-volunteer for four years running, building on a history of sweet venues,...
It’s been a bit over two weeks since the last WNiER (“winner”?) post and in the time since our last visit, Ruby on Rails 2.3.4 was released to fix some...
We’ve released Ruby on Rails 2.3.4, this release fixes bugs and introduces a few minor features. Due to the inclusion of two security fixes, all users of the 2.3 series...
There is a weakness in the code Ruby on Rails uses to verify message digests in the cookie store. Because it uses a non-constant time algorithm to verify the signatures...
There is a vulnerability in the escaping code for the form helpers in Ruby on Rails. Attackers who can inject deliberately malformed unicode strings into the form helpers can defeat...
Lots of great content coming out of the community in the past month. Below you’ll find some of the most useful tutorials and libraries I’ve found over the past few...
Understand Ruby’s Load Path <p>When you call <code>load</code> or <code>require</code> a new file, Ruby searches through the files in its load path. This allows you to require files relative to...