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  1. bustin' out JOINs

    An intro to ActiveRecord’s join option.

    Jared Carroll
    December 29, 2006
    • Web
    • Rails
  2. What's the Deal with Rails' Polymorphic Associations?

    An intro to Rails polymorphic associations for Java developers.

    Jared Carroll
    December 27, 2006
    • Web
    • Rails
  3. SwitchTower Gotchas

    How to work around some common SwitchTower deployment problems.

    Matt Jankowski
    December 21, 2006
    • Web
    • Rails
  4. Using Wrapper Classes with ActiveRecord to Enforce Security Rules

    A technique for writing ActiveRecord code in a secure way.

    Tammer Saleh
    November 9, 2006
    • Web
    • Rails
  5. LDAP Server for ActiveRecord Models

    Here’s how to set up an LDAP server for your Ruby app.

    Tammer Saleh
    November 9, 2006
    • Web
    • Rails
  6. Command-Line Utility to Interrogate Models

    Here’s a little script to better understand your ActiveRecord models.

    Tammer Saleh
    October 19, 2006
    • Web
    • Rails
  7. offsetHeight especially slow in Firefox for Mac

    offsetHeight has performance problems on one browser.

    Chad Pytel
    October 14, 2006
    • Web
    • JavaScript
    • Performance
  8. Squirrel - Natural Looking Queries for Rails

    Announcing Squirrel, a new Ruby open source library we wrote to improve how we query SQL databases.

    Jon Yurek
    September 29, 2006
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Squirrel
  9. Built-In XSS Protection in Rails will Confuse You

    A workaround for running multiple Rails apps on a single machine.

    Matt Jankowski
    December 14, 2005
    • Web
    • Rails
  10. Wasting Less Time

    We think standardizing on two development languages will help us waste less time.

    Chad Pytel
    December 5, 2005
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