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Wednesday, August 13 2008
791 Add empty_template option when rendering a collection was updated in Ruby on Rails
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    RSL commented at 1:54 PM

    +1 especially with the option for handling simple one line HTML strings [as discussed in #rails-contrib].

Tuesday, July 29 2008
720 past? and future? methods for easier Date/Time comparisons was updated in Ruby on Rails
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    RSL commented at 4:18 PM

    Ginormous amounts of +1. Tremendously useful shortcut here. I might suggest making Time#past? and DateTime#past? actually the same as !future? [or >= Time.now]...

Saturday, July 19 2008
181 Incorrect input name with nested fields_for was updated in Ruby on Rails
Friday, July 18 2008
578 Mime type lookup_by_extesion is case sensitive was updated in Ruby on Rails
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    RSL commented at 2:59 PM

    Re: "We have no control over how our end users name their files."

    You do have the ability [if not the responsibility] to rename/downcase/whatever a user's cho...

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    RSL commented at 2:58 PM

    On a Unix platform "foo.css" != "foo.CSS".

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    RSL commented at 12:37 PM

    I think this is a problem of Windows devs forgetting that on Unix servers [because hopefully no one is deploying Rails to a Windows server] case does matter. A...

Thursday, July 17 2008
647 serialize'd array not unserializing properly was updated in Ruby on Rails
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    RSL commented at 10:38 PM

    How is this not a has_many association?

327 nested fields_for with index should account for the index was updated in Ruby on Rails
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    RSL commented at 8:28 PM

    +1 here.

641 FormHelper#fields_for has illogical (and unused) option was updated in Ruby on Rails
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    RSL commented at 1:45 PM

    Yeah. I read this in passing and just opened Rails source to verify and saw the same thing. I knew I remembered it using fields_for internally, just not the ex...

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    RSL commented at 1:26 PM

    I think you need this in fields_for because form_for actually uses fields_for internally.