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Squirrel - Once More, with Feeling!

The second release of our Squirrel library for Ruby SQL queries.
Jon Yurek
January 12, 2007
- Web
- Rails
- Squirrel
Second Refactoring of Security Roles

Refactoring role-based security code in Ruby.
Tammer Saleh
January 12, 2007
- Web
- Rails
When to Create?

Tips on using Rails’ find_or_create_by feature.
Matt Jankowski
January 2, 2007
- Web
- Rails
bustin' out JOINs

An intro to ActiveRecord’s join option.
Jared Carroll
December 29, 2006
- Web
- Rails
What's the Deal with Rails' Polymorphic Associations?

An intro to Rails polymorphic associations for Java developers.
Jared Carroll
December 27, 2006
- Web
- Rails
SwitchTower Gotchas

How to work around some common SwitchTower deployment problems.
Matt Jankowski
December 21, 2006
- Web
- Rails
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
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
Command-Line Utility to Interrogate Models

Here’s a little script to better understand your ActiveRecord models.
Tammer Saleh
October 19, 2006
- Web
- Rails
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
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