Rails

Upgrading to Rails 5.1 + 5.2

8 minutes

Rails 5.1 shifts everything around in terms of Javascript and front-end. After years of infighting, the Rails core team adopts what had become widespread for the Javascript community. Many, many new things are introduced in […]

Rails

Upgrading to Rails 5.0

Jason 23 June No Comments

8 minutes

In many ways, while Rails 5 was a visionary step forward for Rails, it is largely an extension of Rails 4.2. The primary thing to note upfront is ActionCable — a fancy implementation of WebSockets, […]

Rails

Upgrading To Rails 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2

Jason 22 June No Comments

9 minutes

As a continuation of Friday’s upgrading theme, I’m going to have Week of Upgrading here at the Rails Coach. Buckle up, sit back, and get ready to learn everything about upgrading your Rails upgrades from […]

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Upgrading to Rails 3, 3.1, and 3.2 (Antipattern Friday: Staying on Very Old Versions of Rails)

Jason 19 June No Comments

10 minutes

A post about upgrading from Rails 2 to Rails 3, 3.1, or 3.2

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ActiveRecord Query Interface Part 2

Jason 18 June No Comments

4 minutes

ActiveRecord Query Interface is an important tool to use object relational mapping (ORM) to marry your ActiveRecord object to the SQL that will drive the queries against your database. This post continues from yesterday’s post about ActiveRecord Query Interface.

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A Word About Flash Messages

Jason 15 June No Comments

6 minutes

When you first learn Rails, you will learn about an important little tool call flash messages. These messages are shown to your user to alert them of important information. Rails will stuff the information from your flash messages into its session, and pull it out again on the next request. There are some tricks you can use to massage your flash message to how you want them to appear.