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Why Merb Becoming Rails 3 is a Good Thing

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Q: Rails or Merb?
A: Yes. 
So, today’s big news is that Merb will be the new Rails.  Wow!  Who said you couldn’t get people’s attention during the holidays.  This is really going to shake up the Ruby web community. 
There has been a lot of reactions to the news, not all of it positive.  This tweet jumped [...]

automatically calling acts_as_state_machine events on update

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

I have used acts_as_state_machine in a few client projects and have recently run across a need on a couple of them to allow RESTful updates to change states, easy enough except I want to be able to call the appropriate events and make the proper transitions if they are possible. So I came up [...]