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  1. Our ActiveRecord Book ...and YOU!

    Well, it has started to show up on the Apress website, so I believe that...

    Chad Pytel
    February 25, 2007
    • News
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    • Rails
  2. Rails Patch: Change the Name of the :id Parameter in Routing Resources

    A relatively little known fact about the rails routing helpers is that they...

    Tammer Saleh
    February 22, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  3. A Convenient Squirrel Addition

    This is probably something that should have been done sooner, but I didn’t...

    Jon Yurek
    February 13, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Squirrel
  4. ActiveResource and Testing

    ActiveResource is a pretty amazing implementation of REST, made in Ruby, for...

    Eric Mill
    February 2, 2007
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    • Testing
  5. Unpopular Developer 1: Come on in, The Water's Fine

    Refactor code to make it elegant.

    Floyd Wright
    January 23, 2007
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    • Rails
  6. Relax Dont Do it When You Want to Go to It

    Authorization code for Rails.

    Jared Carroll
    January 19, 2007
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  7. NULLs. Can't Live with 'em Can't Live Without 'em

    Problems with NULL in Rails associations.

    Jared Carroll
    January 18, 2007
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    • PostgreSQL
  8. Squirrel - Once More, with Feeling!

    The second release of our Squirrel library for Ruby SQL queries.

    Jon Yurek
    January 12, 2007
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    • Squirrel
  9. Second Refactoring of Security Roles

    Refactoring role-based security code in Ruby.

    Tammer Saleh
    January 12, 2007
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  10. When to Create?

    Tips on using Rails’ find_or_create_by feature.

    Matt Jankowski
    January 2, 2007
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