by vanstee

Rails Needs to Make JSON Serialization Easier

Published April 26, 2012 in Ruby On Rails Open Source Code

As the web continues to mature, JSON APIs (and XML if you're into that) have become increasingly important. But if you've tried to use Rails to write an API recently, you know there are a handful of competing methods and gems focused on making this better. I'm all for interchangable libraries, but, as Yehuda Katz pointed out in his recent talk at RailsConf, Rails needs a "convention over configuration" approach to solving the JSON serialization problem once and for all. So I was pretty excited when I heard about Jose Valim's ActiveModel::Serializer.

by mike

RailsConf 2012

Published April 24, 2012 in Ruby On Rails Open Source Community Awesome Speaking Presentations

Highgroove sent me, Jonathan, and Patrick to RailsConf 2012. I've been learning a lot by going to some great talks and enjoying talking to my fellow Rails developers. If you see any of us, feel free to say hello!

There's a big push to make this the most public RailsConf ever, so all talks are being recorded. On top of that, I have also been trying to take notes and make them public.