Useful Rails blog posts
A list of specific blog posts (not written by me) that I believe are helpful for a Rails developer:
Development
- Matt Brictson on Lightning-Fast Sass Reloading in Rails 3.2. How to get CodeKit like reloads with your rails project. This little task is amazing, and will greatly speed stylistic chages.
- Bryan Helmkamp on 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models.
OOP
- Matt Wynne on Hexagonal Rails: Objects, Values and Hexagons An introduction to the concept of Hexagonal Rails, a concept for improving the OO nature of a Rails app and using more POROs
Security
Starr Horne on The Inadequate Guide to Rail Security An overview of general security vulnerabilities in Rails (and web apps in general)
Not-Rails Specific
Joel Spolky’s UI book A short online book on UI