Rails always comes up with some and creative new features, and Rails 4 is no exception. One of the new features in Rails 4 is Strong Parameters. The basic idea behind Strong Parameters is to move mass-assignment protection out of the model…
Continue Reading…In my last article, I started installing Rails, explaining some of the options that are available, and briefly identifying each of the gems that Rails uses. This week, we’ll finish covering the gems and discuss the bits of Rails that make up application generation.
Continue Reading…Continuing from my last post about RVM, this time we’ll install Rails. Again, this series attempts to give you a bit of a deeper dive into getting started with Rails, so we will go through some of the options available when first creating your world-changing Rails application, as well as the gems that are installed along with Rails.
Continue Reading…This post marks the first in a series to help you start from nothing and end with a Rails application. Although there are many posts/series on this subject, I feel like basic Rails tutorials, especially in the wake of Rails 3.1 changes,…
Continue Reading…A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about splitting out work to be done into threads to improve performance of a URL checker. A commenter noted that the parallel gem could be used to achieve the same result, which got me…
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