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This is the continuation of the Rails 3 Build a Blog series. This episode includes implementation of the Edit and Destroy methods on the Posts Controller. There are a lot of things left to cover on Rails 3, but this gets you the basics of the MVC framework and how to use Cucumber to build [...]

Here we continue upgrading an application to Rails 3 by getting our specs up and running and going through the rails_upgrade plugin.

In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment. The rails_upgrade plugin will then help us determine what needs upgrading.

Rails 3 is possibly the most anticipated release of the popular Ruby web framework. It’s been rewritten from the inside out with speed and stability at the forefront. However, these extensive internal and syntactical improvements require some changes to your code and plugins. Respected Rubyist Jeremy McAnally has researched and...

This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate.

Embedded flash notices, permanent cookies, and the details of respond_with are in this episode.

There are a number of libraries to help create graphs. Here I show how to integrate Highcharts into a Rails app.

Quick Ruby Tip: The inject method is useful for aggregating data across a dataset. For example a summation could be done with inject (by aggregating each number into the sum.)

The router in Rails 3 is fully compatible with Rack. Learn how to embed Sinatra into an app, handle redirects, and improve on Rails Metal.

It is now possible to add subdomains to Rails 3 without the use of additional plugins. Learn how in this episode.