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May 13, 2013 | 12 minutes | Performance , Active Record Caching at a low level is a great option when the view is too dynamic to cache and you need something flexible that can work anywhere in the application. Here I show a variety of ways to use Rails.cache with Active Record.
With the release of Rails 4.0.0.rc1 it's time to try it out and report any bugs. Here I walk you through the steps to upgrade a Rails 3.2 application to Rails 4.
Apr 27, 2013 | 18 minutes | Rack , APIs Here I demonstrate how to perform bulk API operations though a single request using Rack middleware. This is great if you need to trigger multiple actions at once such as if the user goes offline.
Upcoming Schedule Change You may have noticed the RailsCasts episode production has slowed recently. I have tried to compensate for this by providing free weeks to subscribers, however that is a temporary solution that I did not plan to use regularly. Starting May 6, 2013, I will be c...
Good one. Under what circumstances would you recommend this over elastic search? The obvious benefit is that you don't need to install and keep up another piece of software just for indexing your content, but I'm concerned about the speed. Have anyone done a speed test between these t...
#414 Batch API Requests pro Apr 27, 2013 | 18 minutes | Rack , APIs Here I demonstrate how to perform bulk API operations though a single request using Rack middleware. This is great if you need to trigger multiple actions at once such as if the user goes offline. Subscribe to Watch E...
With the release of Rails 4.0.0.rc1 it's time to try it out and report any bugs. Here I walk you through the steps to upgrade a Rails 3.2 application to Rails 4.
#53 Handling Exceptions (revised) Apr 20, 2013 | 11 minutes | Controllers , Routing , Production , Rack By default, Rails will render a static error file when an exception occurs in production. Here you will learn how to fully customize this behavior and render dynamic error pages. Su...
