May 2013
May 21, 2013
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Speaker
Torey Maerz / C5 Software
Topic
Rails 4: What's New and How to Prepare
The Rails core team released Rails 4 beta 1 at the end of February and the final release is expected to land soon. Its brings several new features and depreciations you'll need to watch out for.
Torey Maerz will go over what is coming in Rails 4, and what you'll have to do to prepare your Rails 3 apps. He'll also touch on some new features of Ruby 2.0.
Here are a few highlights that Torey will cover:
- Gotchas for migrating Rails 3 apps
- Changes to mass assignments
- Features that have moved to their own gems
- Thread Safety and what it means for your apps
- Using turbo links
- Cache improvements
- Important deprecations like the removal of some dynamic finders
- Changes to cross site forgery protection
- Improvements to some active record associations
Torey was previously the CIO at Appcore and is now running his own software company, C5 Software.
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