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A web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

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A scripting or programming language that allows you to implement complex things on web pages and server-side.

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Recent Rails Screencasts

We're always publishing new content on Rails, Ruby, and Javascript. Here's some of the things we've done lately.

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Preventing Conflicts with Optimistic Locking

#307 · Aug 15, 2019 Pro

When things (users, jobs, etc) attempt to update the same record at the same time, we can often lose changes. Optimistic locking uses a lock version number to warn you about updating stale objects so you can handle that safely.

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