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Rails 2.1

david.barral@trabesoluciones.com (David) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:55:00 GMT

About Rails 2.1 I can only say that it is still the same, but much better. You can realize it reading the free book that Carlos Brando has published, which resumes al the changes made to this version.

Ruby vulnerabilities

david.barral@trabesoluciones.com (David) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:22:00 GMT

I was going to write about Rails 2.1 but that must wait. It seems that some Ruby VM vulnerabilities have arisen and that's bigger news. Ruby team say that we must upgrade... in the near future. Looks like it is better to wait for a DoS attack rather than updating due to the development team haste: some people complained about odd behaviours (and segmentation faults). Let's see how long do they take to publish a new patch that do not kill our Rails applications. I wonder if the enterprise version already patched?

Avoiding problems with Firebug: debug and M.I.A. console

david.barral@trabesoluciones.com (David) — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:01:00 GMT

Missing in action (M.I.A) is a status assigned to a member of the armed services who is reported missing following combat and may be injured, captured, or dead.

Yes my friends: missing in action. That could happen to the useful console object from the Firebug tool (which the vast majortiy of javascript "hackers" around the world use or know).

If you are using it, as we do, do not forget to use this snippet before your javascript code. You will avoid the exceptions that forgotten and innocent console.debug lines will cause.

if (!window.console) { var console = { debug : function(value) { }}}

By the way, lately the Firebug tends to knock out my Firefox... or is it the Firefox the one being sluggish lately... I'm clueless...