Knee-deep in ActiveRecord::Relation code yesterday, I was reminded of some interesting nuggets that I’ve seen used far too rarely. Here, I’ve gathered my top ten most underused relation methods from that list for your reading delight.

Many articles found in the Ruby community largely oversimplify the use of DCI. These articles, including my own, highlight how DCI injects Roles into objects at runtime, the essence of the DCI architecture. Many posts regard DCI in the following way:

In this tutorial, I'll go over the code for CloudEdit, an example Backbone.js app backed with Rails that outlines some basic patterns that I've used successfully in my Rails Backbone projects. I'll start by describing the spec for the app, and then detail how the models, controllers, and views hook up. This tutorial assumes you already have some basic knowledge about Rails — I'll be focusing mainly on the Backbone.js concepts.