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This week’s report covers changes from 24 Mar 2008 to 30 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded). There’re lots of big exciting changes this week on edge. Smells like 2.1 soon! has_finder gem merged into Rails Ryan Daigle has the scoop on the new has_finder-like functionality in Rails so head [...]

It’s time again for some edge Rails love. If you haven’t listened to it yet, be sure to check out this week’s Rails Envy podcast This week’s report covers changes from 17 Mar 2008 to 23 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded). script/plugin install works for Git repositories Yup you [...]

This week’s report covers changes from 10 Mar 2008 to 16 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded). Custom JavaScript and stylesheet symbols Remember how you can do something like: javascript_include_tag :defaults and Rails would load all the Prototype JavaScript files and your application.js? You can now register your own custom [...]

This week’s report covers changes from 3 Mar 2008 to 9 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded). Improve performance on :include/:conditions/:limit queries by selectively joining in the pre-query This is another ActiveRecord performance boost related to the pre-loading any eager-loaded :includes mentioned previously. Basically what this patch does is to [...]

Another awfully sleepy week on Rails edge. Though by the time I had sent over the notes to Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer of the awesome Rails Envy podcast, there has been some nice changes (that I’ll be mentioning next week, but there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from checking those out yourself). In other interesting [...]