Rails 3 ...and the real secret to high productivity

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Rails 3 refactors internals (abstract controller, ActiveRelation) and rewrites the router to be Rack-mountable so multiple apps (Sinatra, even Django parts) can live under one roof; view output escape-by-default (use raw to opt out); unobtrusive JS uses HTML5 data- attributes with small prototype/jQuery drivers so ajax links/forms drop heavy inline code; generators and an Action RM proxy make ORMs and test frameworks pluggable; a concrete productivity claim: a permissions feature that took two weeks is reduced to about 1.5 days* by renegotiating requirements.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 6:54The Rails formula
3. 9:04Derek Sivers
4. 12:05The Fail Whale
5. 15:24The Murk Thing
6. 16:32Core Principles
7. 17:39Rails 3 Philosophy
8. 18:14Lock up all the unicorns
9. 19:13No holy cows
10. 21:52Have it your way
11. 24:22Rails 3 progress
12. 32:00Crosssite scripting attacks
13. 35:36JavaScript
14. 42:26ActiveRecord
15. 43:45ActiveSupport
16. 45:43The genesis of Rails
17. 47:40Re renegotiating requirements
18. 55:28The most powerful tool
19. 56:49Suppress internal objections
20. 57:58People programmers

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