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We master space and time this week (discussing a book of the same name), deep dive with ActiveRecord which loves blocks, live stream with Rails 4.0, and discuss Team Dashboard, respond_to_missing?, Synack, and Try iOS.

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ActiveRecord loves blocks


Do you know how easy it is to use a block syntax to create new ActiveRecord objects? Carlos Antonio da Silva posted an article on the Plataformatec blog which illustrates this technique that's been around for a while, but you may not be using it.

Rails 4.0 Live Streaming


Aaron Patterson wrote up an article on a recently added feature for Rails 4, Live Streaming. This can be used for anything where you’d want to send data to clients in real time.

Team Dashboard Released


If you need one of those awesome visual dashboards for your application you may want to check out a library from Federik Dietz called “Team Dashboard”. It's an open source Rails app.

Always define respond_to_missing? when overriding method_missing


Did you know that when you override method_missing it’s also your responsibility as a good ruby programmer to override respond_to? Better yet, if you're using Ruby 1.9.3 you should implement the respond_to_missing? method. See Mike Burns wrote an article on Thoughtbot for more information.

ActiveRecord Deep Dive


Richard Schneems has been teaching a class on Databases & Rails at the University of Texas, and has been posting his course content on a weekly basis to his blog. This week he posted a bunch of small screencasts going over some of the basics of ActiveRecord including find, where, include, order, offset, joins, group, and having.

Synack


If you've already installed Mountain Lion, you may be be familiar with the notification center. This week Corey Ehmke released Synack, to make it simple to send messages from your code to the notification center. You might use this instead of Growl.

Master Space and Time with JavaScript


Rubyist Noel Rappin (author of the Rails Test Prescriptions book) just published the first two books in his series called “Master Space and Time with JavaScript”. The books are targeted at developers who have a basic knowledge of JavaScript ut who need to learn about newer tools and practices. What's awesome about the book is how it uses TDD with Jasmine to show how to properly test your JavaScript (and JQuery in the first book). The second book covers objects in javascript, the 3rd which comes out in september will cover backbone, and the 4th by the end of the year will cover Ember.

Try iOS


The folks over here at Code School just put out a Kickstarter campaign yesterday to raise money to build an iPhone app development course. Basically we think we figured out how to allow someone to code iPhone apps in the browser, but the cost for producing the course isn't cheap. So, if this is something you might be interested in supporting (or getting access to the course when it's done), please checkout the kickstarter page.