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This episode finishes up this series on Rails 2.3. Here you will learn about several smaller additions in 2.3.

Rails 2.1 brings some new caching features which makes it very easy to cache any values including models. See how in this episode.

Several methods in rails take a hash of options as the last argument. If you are passing the same options to several methods, you can remove this duplication by using with_options. Learn all about it in this episode.

Learn how to use the trusty strftime method to format a time, and see how Rails allows you to save this format for later use.

Learn how to use the very useful group_by method to group an array by anything you want! In this episode I group an array of tasks by month then sort it properly.

Have you ever wanted to visually line up items in rows and columns? The in_groups_of method makes this a cinch. Just watch out for the gotcha.

It may have a goofy syntax, but the Symbol#to_proc feature Rails adds allows you to do simple blocks very quickly and easily.