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The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast is a weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of software development.
Hosted by Ben Orenstein, who is joined each week by developers and designers from thoughtbot and beyond.
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Episode #14
Say goodbye to that big guy
Ben Orenstein is joined by Prem Sichanugrist, a developer at thoughtbot and the #31 top Rails contributor. Ben and Prem walk through the major changes that will be introduced in Rails 4, including strong parameters, the new built in queue, cache_digest, changes in ActiveRecord::Relation, and ActiveResource. The also discuss what people can do to ease contribution and issue submission to Rails, how can people get their first commit into Rails, and much more.
Notes & Links
- Prems Boston.rb talk and video: What to Expect in Rails 4.0
- strong_parameters
- Queue
- cache_digests
- Russian (Matryoshka) doll
- Basecamp next
- Basecamp next RAM and caching hardware
- ActiveRecord::Relation
- Null Object pattern
- Tell Don't Ask
- ActiveResource
- Prem's first commit to Rails
- docrails
- Ruby on Rails Guides
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The Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast is sponsored by thoughtbot, hosted by Ben Orenstein, edited by Edward Loveall, and produced by Chad Pytel.