Derek and Sean discuss what the Attributes API enables, the addition of Relation#or and paid open source.

  • Sean's attributes API is "finished"
  • Attributes API documentation
  • PostGIS ActiveRecord Adapter
  • composed_of
  • Yehuda's RailsConf Keynote on the power of shared abstractions.
  • Ernie Miller's RailsConf talk on the consequences of Rails' abstractions.
  • load_schema makes sense now.
  • DelegateClass
  • Steve Klabnik tweets about companies not giving back significantly to Ruby open source
  • Sean speeds up on MRI and jRuby