We have opened a limited number of "fresh tracks" early bird tickets. There are only 100 for sale, and will only be available until April 17th. Please visit http://burlingtonruby.com for information about the conference and to purchase tickets. See you in August!

I wrote about a little known change to Active Record queries in the forthcoming Rails 4 release that I thought people would be interested in.

This summer we'll be hosting the 2nd annual Burlington Ruby Conference in Burlington, Vermont. We are looking for a diversity of speakers and topics that are of interest to Rubyists of all kinds. Proposals will be accepted until April 1st. For information about speaking and to submit a proposal, visit http://burlingtonruby.com/speak.html

ClassyEnum is a Rails gem that adds class-based enumerator functionality to ActiveRecord attributes. This latest release provides a simpler way of defining enum classes and underwent a big internal refactoring.

As mentioned in this week's issue of Ruby Weekly, Burlington Ruby Conf 2012 will take place in Burlington, Vermont on July 28 - 29th. Join like-minded Ruby enthusiasts for Vermont's first Ruby conference, hosted on beautiful Lake Champlain. Besides an amazing lake setting and great presentations from well known industry speakers, you'll be joining peers from around the region to network, eat good food, and discover new opportunities. We hope to see you there! For more details, head to http://burlingtonruby.com/

With the recent buzz over Github's mass-assignment security vulnerability, I thought some people might find my sudo_attributes gem useful. It provides a simple API for overriding protected ActiveRecord attributes while not interfering with existing behavior. It is useful in the parts of your application that are not exposed to mass-assignment from external, unfiltered sources.

https://github.com/beerlington/sudo_attributes

ClassyEnum is a class based enumerator gem for Rails.