1. What's the Deal with Rails' Polymorphic Associations?

    An intro to Rails polymorphic associations for Java developers.

    Jared Carroll

  2. SwitchTower Gotchas

    How to work around some common SwitchTower deployment problems.

    Matt Jankowski

  3. LDAP Server for ActiveRecord Models

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

    Tammer Saleh

  4. Using Wrapper Classes with ActiveRecord to Enforce Security Rules

    A technique for writing ActiveRecord code in a secure way.

    Tammer Saleh

  5. Command-Line Utility to Interrogate Models

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

    Tammer Saleh

  6. offsetHeight especially slow in Firefox for Mac

    offsetHeight has performance problems on one browser.

    Chad Pytel

  7. 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

  8. Built-In XSS Protection in Rails will Confuse You

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

    Matt Jankowski

  9. Wasting Less Time

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

    Chad Pytel

  10. Rails Session Stores

    How to switch to an alternative Rails session store.

    Jon Yurek

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