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30 Jan 2008

Another week of edge Rails changes, featured on the Rails Envy podcast. This weeks’ report covers changes from 21 Jan 2008 to 27 Jan 2008 (the day the Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
Eager loading :includes does pre-loading
The current gem Rails behavior when loading associations with something like
Author.find(:all, :include => [:posts, :comments])
is to make a big [...]

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Trying code blocks in Ruby (aka Prototype’s Try.these)

In: Ruby

28 Jan 2008

Prototype’s Try.these is a really useful bit of code (though I doubt it sees much application outside of JavaScript libraries). I have this evil bit of code somewhere, for example:
var results = Try.these(
function() { return response.responseText.evalJSON(true); },
function() { return eval(‘(‘ + response.responseText + ‘)’); }
);
Evilness personified in its evaled glory, but [...]

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Songza – finally an easy way to listen to boy band music

In: Applications

25 Jan 2008

Songza’s quite nice, especially after us non-US users lost access to Pandora. Now I can finally listen to some boy band music when I feel like it (because I don’t have any in my library).

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Rails and penis enhancements

In: Fun| Ruby on Rails

25 Jan 2008

Funniest bug report I’ve seen on the Rails issue tracker: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10919. Be sure to read the comments, and the resolution:
I appreciate that penis enhancements are the norm for most of the commenters here, but their use is definitely not widespread enough to justify fixing this.

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Living on the edge (of Rails) #4 – faster routes, easier form partials

In: Edge Rails| Open Source| Ruby| Ruby on Rails

23 Jan 2008

It’s time again for your weekly dose of what’s new in edge Rails. This weeks’ report covers changes from 14 Jan 2008 to 20 Jan 2008 (the day the Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
Route recognition is faster
Rails’ route recognition has been optimized and is significantly faster especially for applications using many resources (i.e. via map.resources [...]

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Living on the edge (of Rails) #4 – faster routes, easier form partials

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