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Deleting and Undeleting with Paranoia

#19 Oct 7, 2015 free

When your app is using Paranoia, calling destroy on an ActiveRecord object doesn't actually destroy the database record, but just hides it.

rails view model

Annotate

#11 Aug 7, 2015 free

With strong params replacing attr_accessible, a difficulty has arisen with referencing to the structure of your models. With annotate, we can generate the structure of our models in the comments of our models.

rails model documentation

Florrick

#5 Jul 24, 2015 free

This is a Rails library which integrates with Active Records and provides some awesome user-initiated string interpolations for your web apps. For example, have you ever needed to allow users to insert their own variables into e-mail templates or messages?

rails model strings

Serialized Attributes

#4 Jul 22, 2015 free

Store multiple attributes and values using a text column. Not for everyday use, but has situations where it can save on the number of columns and/or models needed to accomplish a task.

rails model

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