When I first got into Ruby and Rails development, I was impressed about how everything worked. A few lines of code and so much got done. At that time, if I was reading a book or blog post that said: “just do X and Y will automagically work”. I would gladly accept those instructions. However, after a while, … »

We have been working on SimpleForm for some time since the last release and have got a lot of contributions from community. Now it is time for a new release with more HTML 5 compatibility plus some new cool features. So, without further ado, lets take a ride on the new stuff. HTML 5 One … »

There is a vulnerability in Devise source code that allows someone to steal your session through session fixation attacks. Who is affected? This vulnerability is present in all Devise versions, in both 1.0 and 1.1 branches. However, you are only affected if you are using a Active Record ou Memcached or other server persistent session … »

Suppose you park your car in a neighborhood with a lot of occurrences of vandalism and crimes. If you return two weeks later, there is a good chance that you will find the car in the same state that it were when you left it there.  Now imagine if you parked the same car but … »

Most of the applications we create these days usually have an admin interface where an user with necessary privileges is able to manage the application content, respecting some business rules. Thus it is required that part of this content is easily manageable, which means the user needs to be able to add some formatting to … »

Rails 3 was released this week but the minds of the Rails Core team members are already focused on the 3.1 release for quite some time. DHH was the first one to give a hint on what we would like to see in Rails 3.1 in his RailsConf talk and, as Ruby Summer of Code … »