It is easy to be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks in earlier versions of Rails, but Rails 3 solves this by automatically escaping unsafe input.
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Episode 204: XSS Protection in Rails 3
Episode 203: Routing in Rails 3
Rails 3 sports a new routing interface. In this episode I show how to translate the old interface into the new one and show off a few new features.
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Episode 202: Active Record Queries in Rails 3
Rails 3 introduces a new query interface for performing finds in Active Record. See how it works along with the changes in named scopes.
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Episode 201: Bundler
Bundler is the way to manage gem dependencies in Rails 3.0. Learn how to install gems and lock them down in this episode.
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Episode 200: Rails 3 Beta and RVM
Get started with Rails 3.0 Beta and install Ruby 1.9.1 using RVM: Ruby Version Manager. Stay tuned to the end for a challenge on giving back to open source.
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Episode 199: Mobile Devices
Change the look and behavior of a Rails app on mobile devices. Also use jQTouch to build a native-looking interface.
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Episode 198: Edit Multiple Individually
Use checkboxes to edit multiple records in one form, where each one has an individual set of form fields.
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Episode 197: Nested Model Form Part 2
Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.
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Episode 196: Nested Model Form Part 1
Handling multiple models in a single form is much easier with the accepts_nested_attributes_for method. See how to use this method to handle nested model fields.
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Episode 195: My Favorite Web Apps in 2009
Here I show several of my favorite web applications which I found most helpful as a Ruby developer over the past year.
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