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require 'recurrence'

class IowaRubyBrigade
  def next_meeting
    Recurrence.new(
      :every => :month,
      :on => :third,
      :weekday => :tuesday
    ).next
  end
end

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Next Meeting

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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Last updated Apr 17, 2013 at 11:40pm UTC

Thank You

Thanks to Brandon Ruschill of Goodsmiths for his presentation on Writing Custom Rack Middleware at our April 2013 meeting.

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