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This feature is scheduled for: Rails v2.3 We were all teased a few months ago about the possibility of finally solving the nested model/complex forms problem in Rails, but were then cruelly notified that it wasn’t quite ready for pri...

This feature is scheduled for: Rails v2.3 Long ago, in your mother’s version of rails, we got a http basic authentication plugin. That functionality has since been rolled into Rails core, but it was always lacking HTTP digest authen...

Nested Model support in Rails is currently scheduled for Rails 2.3. Yay! The Rails team has recently organized its community around the Rails Activists group and provided several ways for you to speak your mind about the framework – ...

I’m not big on publicizing commercial works due to the obvious bias involved, but we’ve recently finished up the Oxford American College Dictionary and Thesaurus for the iPhone and our client was nice enough to give us a few free downl...

This feature is scheduled for: Rails v2.3/3.0 For quite some time now you’ve been able to perform simple queries using dynamic find_all_by_xx_and_yy methods: 1 2 Article.find_by_published_and_user_id(true, 1) #=> "S...

This feature is scheduled for: Rails v3.0 Wow, from the bombshell department comes the news that Rails and Merb will be merging to form Rails 3. It seems the Rails and Merb teams have acknowledged that there is good in both frameworks...

This feature is scheduled for: Rails v2.3/3.0 In what is clearly a move to make me irrelevant within the Rails community, news has broken about the new Rails metal feature before I had the time to do a proper write-up. (And for the...

This feature is scheduled for: Rails v2.3/3.0 I’m way late to the party on this one, but it’s such a great feature that the least I can do is provide some link love for Edge Rails’ new application template feature. In a nutshe...

This feature is scheduled for: Rails v2.3/3.0 Parallel to the addition of :except and :only options to Rails’ routing comes the removal of all those formatted_xxx named routes. Turns out these routes ate up a lot of memory and serve...