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The last stop before Rails 2.0 has gone live. Get your Rails 1.2.4 maintenance goodness and have those deprecations taken care of before you head for two-oh-oh land. Read more at http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on

If you use ActiveRecord::Base.connection.create_database you''ll notice that by default the created db will use latin1 encoding. I created a plugin to handle different charset and collations (on top of helping you with other boring DB tasks). You can check out the early version of the plugin svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/raketasks/db_tasks (I really need to move my projects out

I''ve been working on a plugin called Http Test where I add HTML validation and link checking to controller and integration tests through an after filter in ApplicationController. I used to mix in a bunch of methods that I needed into the ApplicationController class, but to me this had a bad smell, so I broke much of the code out into separate classes that I delegate to.

According to "Ruby On Rails", the layout call is suppose to be inherited: (page 508) "Subclasses of a controller will use the parent''s layout unless they override it using the layout directive" I have a case where this is not working. I have not spent time to concoct a stand alone test. I wanted to verify that David''s book is correct first. Can someone

All, I''ve been playing a bit with some patches to make the fixture loading and management code a little bit easier to maintain. If I were to start chopping out features, how would you feel about losing: Fixture instantiation, Old school single-file fixtures, CSV fixtures, The ability to specify a subset of fixtures (everything''s always loaded instead), The ability to

Hi! Before Rails 2.0 is coming, I suggest not to make CookieStore the default session storage. It stores clear-text values on the client-side and the integrity check hash can be brute-force attacked. I understand that this has been set due to speed advantages, but I believe it''s better to make better security a default. I''ve written a blog post about this