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In my previous post, I listed 6 things that you should try in Rails. I also promised some example code to get you started. Since I have already covered installing and upgrading rails, the next cab off the rank is writing a plug-in. Plug-ins are fantastic - they allow you to abstract away common code into [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=8ed53d9d9d50cd4f5d49134ddd943a67" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8ed53d9d9d50cd4f5d49134ddd943a67" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

In this world of Web2.0 mashups and easy API access, it is quite refreshing how easy it is to pull data for third party sites and re-mash it into something new. Unfortunately, not everyone has been bitten by this bug, so we as developers sometimes have to do a little more leg work to get [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=043ecd63a33e90873c8529ea49079736"/> More info

As we know, HTTP - the protocol that the web is built on is stateless - meaning that every transaction with the server doesn&#8217;t know anything about the previous transactions. To get around this, we use cookies to track session and emulate statefulness. Basically a cookie is stored on the users computer, which provides a [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=3e943797074ffdbd17583cc98d58f038" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3e943797074ffdbd17583cc98d58f038" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

In previous posts, I&#8217;m covered some of the updates to Rails 2.0 and how to prepare for Rails 2.0 but haven&#8217;t really covered the mechanics of HOW to upgrade to Rails 2.0. So as part of the 6 things to try in Rails this year series, I have compiled a quick recipe that works for [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=ddc7af3f362a0a1761cc56eb2acef437" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ddc7af3f362a0a1761cc56eb2acef437" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

As Matt Magain pointed out yesterday, Rails 2.0 is now gold! Not a lot has changed feature wise from the PR (makes sense - features were frozen at that point), although it seems that the new improvements to fixtures managed to slip in to the final version. Rather than having to map foreign keys in your [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=1dfd5dde915fa82a2359f132f9d86b1e" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1dfd5dde915fa82a2359f132f9d86b1e" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info

As I hinted at in a comment to my last blog post, release candidate 1 for Rails 2.0 has just been released with a number of improvements and bug fixes and in preparation for the final release it is recommended that anyone that is using the pre-release upgrades there applications - but how can you [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=2947eecc39feb9d3ff862e2a68414295"/> More info

RESTful Rails have been a a much debated part of the Rails core, since the original restful_rails plugin was merged in to core just over a year ago. But with the improvements that have been made in Rails 2.0, they are here to stay, so it is important to understand what they are, how they [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=48ac65680b673accc2c63d288d8e54ed"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=48ac65680b673accc2c63d288d8e54ed"/></a> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=48ac65680b673accc2c63d288d8e54ed" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> More info