Devise 3.0 rc version with Rails 4 compatibility and new 2.2.4 stable version. Simple Form, Responders, Show For and Mail Form versions with Rails 4 compatibility.

We are very glad to announce the logos for two of our favorite Rails open source projects… Simple Form: And Devise: We would like to congratulate our designer, Bruna Kochi, who was able to capture the essence of each project in their logos. We will write about their design process soon! Those projects have been … »

We have a gem available for every kind of feature or scenario we might face in our applications and that may help us focus our development time on things that are more important to our applications. But, every now and then, these packaged solutions aren’t exactly what we need, and some sort of customization needs … »

One of the recent topics in our discussions at Plataformatec was about whether we should use scopes or class methods throughout the project to be consistent. It’s also not hard to find discussions about it all over the internet. This is an attempt to show the differences between scopes and class methods, to help you understanding what scopes can give you for free and deciding what makes you feel more comfortable when writing your code.

Hi everybody. I’d like to announce that Devise v2.2.3, v2.1.3, v2.0.5 and v1.5.4 have been released with a security patch. Upgrade immediately unless you are using PostgreSQL or SQLite3. Users of all other databases (including NoSQL ones) require immediate upgrade. Using a specially crafted request, an attacker could trick the database type conversion code to … »

We cannot express how excited we are with such great news. In our last blog post we were celebrating Rafael’s achievement and just a few months later we are celebrating again. Years ago, having three Plataformatec teammates as Rails Core members would be something we’d only dream of, but in 2012 it became reality. I must say that it didn’t happen by chance, not at all.