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September 4, 2009
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...
September 4, 2009
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...
September 4, 2009
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...
September 2, 2009
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...
September 1, 2009
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...
August 31, 2009
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the newly added ActionController::Responder which summarizes your application behavior for a specified format in just one place. For example, the default html behavior...
August 30, 2009
Last Friday, Apple released their new OS version: Snow Leopard. Upgrading to SL is very easy and even gives you back quite a lot of HD space. However a few...
August 20, 2009
This week’s post will be rather short and sweet. The notable commits of the week seemed to revolve mainly around refactoring and even slightly altering the way some of the...
August 13, 2009
Another week, another update on Edge Rails. And man, you aren’t making this easy on me, are ya? This weekend, in case you hadn’t already heard, was the first Rails...
August 11, 2009
As Rubyists migrate from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9, new Ruby implementations are gaining in maturity. Recently, IBM's Antonio Cangiano wrote an interesting article comparing the performance between Ruby 1.8,...