The ActiveSupport method Time.zone.now should be used in place of the Ruby method Time.now to pickup the local time zone. Read More

The params hash contains all the data that was submitted from a request. If you modify it, later code won't have access to it. Instead, copy the params hash and modify the copy. Read More

ActiveRecord provides default_scope to set a default scope for all operations on the model, it looks convenient at first, but will lead to some unexpected behaviors, we should avoid using it. Read More

We always have multiple processes for rails websites, if any of them crashed, your website failed, so it would be better to monitor all of the processes and automatically restart crashed processes. Read More

Recently we saw rails exposed some security issues, github was attacked, rubygems.org was crashed, they all remind us we must pay more attentions on our rails projects. Read More

Rails is integrated with sprockets from 3.1, which gives you the power to pre-process, compress and minify your assets. It's awesome, but it slows down deployment a lot. Read More

The "save" method on ActiveRecord returns "false" and does nothing if the record is invalid. You should always check the return value, otherwise you may inadvertently not save the record. If you think the record can never be invalid, or don't want to check the return value, use "save!" Read More

In C# or Java, you can `catch (Exception)` to rescue all exception types. However, in Ruby you should almost never catch `Exception`, but only catch `StandardError`. Read More

Methods should focus on what you want done and not how you want it. Read More

Your capistrano deploy.rb file might become complicated with the growth of your application, contain more and more cap tasks, it would be better to split these tasks into different files according to the functionalities, which makes it easy to maintain, and they are more likely to be reused in the future. Read More