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Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 Released

~2 years ago by Gregg Pollack on Riding Rails.
Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases...

Community Highlights

over 2 years ago by Gregg Pollack on Riding Rails.
I’m always impressed by the continuous flow of innovation from the Rails community. Below are just a few of the highlights from the past month. These...

What's New in Edge Rails

over 2 years ago by Nathaniel Bibler on Riding Rails.
So, Edge Rails is still chugging right along. There are new and interesting fixes, changes, and refactors going on all of the time. So, lets take a...

RubyEnRails 2009

over 2 years ago by Jeremy Kemper on Riding Rails.
RubyEnRails 2009 goes down this 30/31 October in Amsterdam. Talks are in English and Dutch. RubyEnRails has been all-volunteer for four years running...

What's New in Edge Rails: The Security Edition

over 2 years ago by Nathaniel Bibler on Riding Rails.
It's been a bit over two weeks since the last WNiER ("winner"?) post and in the time since our last visit, Ruby on Rails 2.3.4 was released to fix some...

Ruby on Rails 2.3.4: Security Fixes

over 2 years ago by Michael on Riding Rails.
We’ve released Ruby on Rails 2.3.4, this release fixes bugs and introduces a few minor features. Due to the inclusion of two security fixes, all users...

Timing Weakness in Ruby on Rails

over 2 years ago by Michael on Riding Rails.
There is a weakness in the code Ruby on Rails uses to verify message digests in the cookie store. Because it uses a non-constant time algorithm to verify...

XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails

over 2 years ago by Michael on Riding Rails.
There is a vulnerability in the escaping code for the form helpers in Ruby on Rails. Attackers who can inject deliberately malformed unicode strings into...

A Month in Rails

over 2 years ago by Gregg Pollack on Riding Rails.
Lots of great content coming out of the community in the past month. Below you’ll find some of the most useful tutorials and libraries I’ve found...

Gem Packaging: Best Practices

over 2 years ago by Josh Peek on Riding Rails.
Understand Ruby’s Load Path When you call load or require a new file, Ruby searches through the files in its load path. This allows you to require...