1. When to Create?

    Tips on using Rails’ find_or_create_by feature.

    Matt Jankowski

  2. Keep Your Mongrels on a Leash

    A tool to help manage your Mongrel web processes for Ruby.

    Jon Yurek

  3. bustin' out JOINs

    An intro to ActiveRecord’s join option.

    Jared Carroll

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

    An intro to Rails polymorphic associations for Java developers.

    Jared Carroll

  5. SwitchTower Gotchas

    How to work around some common SwitchTower deployment problems.

    Matt Jankowski

  6. Using Wrapper Classes with ActiveRecord to Enforce Security Rules

    A technique for writing ActiveRecord code in a secure way.

    Tammer Saleh

  7. LDAP Server for ActiveRecord Models

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

    Tammer Saleh

  8. Command-Line Utility to Interrogate Models

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

    Tammer Saleh

  9. offsetHeight especially slow in Firefox for Mac

    offsetHeight has performance problems on one browser.

    Chad Pytel

  10. 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

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