Today I want to show you a project I’ve started over a year ago, during Mendicant University core skills course. For those who don’t know, Mendicant University is a group of skilled software developers that offer courses, mentoring, and help out the community, started by Gregory Brown, and that nowadays counts with some other awesome … »

We are excited to present our new visual identity and website.

Rails 4 will ship with ActiveModel::Model, a module that includes the minimum required by Action Pack to work in forms, urls and so forth. Learn more about this module, how to use and extend it in this blog post.

The Carnival is over in Brazil but we are still partying at Plataformatec by bringing you, not a small bump, but a shiny new version: Simple Form 2.0. Simple Form 2.0 features a new wrapper API which makes it very flexible and easy to integrate with CSS frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap.

Devise 2.0 was just released. This version is not a big refactoring, nor contains stellar features, it is simply another step towards a very mature authentication library.

Rails 3.2 is out with great features on spotlight: faster development reloading, faster router and explain queries. However, every Rails release ships with minor features that do not get that much attention but still would be a great fit to your application. This blog post is about my five favorites “hidden” features of Rails 3.2.