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Somehow in the last RCW I missed Johm-Mason P. Shackleford proposal to:

• allow Rails to load a plugin from gem
• permit the plugin script to install them
• give the plugin generator’s default Rake file the ability to package and publish a gem
• introduce freeze/unfreeze for plugins

Jeremy Kemper agrees gems are a good fit. Exciting stuff.

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Martin is working on patch that in his opinion improves on ActionController filters. His solution could work like this:

  add_filter :filter => ProjectScope.new, :except => [:list,:index]
  class ProjectScope
    def filter(controller)
      Project.with_scope( ..etc.. )
        yield
      end
    end
  end

  add_filter :filter => :project_scope, :except => [:list, :index]
  def project_scope
    yield
    # this way drops the clean filter scope in favor of the simplicity of using controller methods.
  end

This would make before and after filters unnecessary.

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Peter Michaux would like a label helper that does :

<%= f.label :name %> 

Turns out Rick Olson wrote a plugin that does: http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/labeled_form_helper/ There’s a discussion about this plugin and the general question is ‘why isn’t this in core ?’.

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Tom Ward wants to hug SQL Server some more. He’s working on an aggregated patch and his work is much appreciated.

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Francois Beausoleil’s route:

map.game_instructions 'game/:game/instructions', :controller => 'games',
    :action => 'instructions', :requirements => {:game => /\A[-\w 
\+%]+\Z/i}

fails miserably with revision r4498. Jamis is spot on when he advises to take out the \A and \Z from the regexp. Nicholas adds => /[a-z]/ routes should interpret this as \A[a-z]\Z. There for ^, \A, \Z, and $ inside regexp captures for requirements is not required, and should not be allowed”. Francois then suggests he writes a patch to help those who will encounter this on their paths. Nicholas point him in the right direction.

Caio Chassot ran into an issue where flash was not swept if the filter chain was halted. Caio supplies a full test scenarion, go read it. Ricks promises he’ll give it some attention over the weekend to fix it.

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Finally, Zach is spicing up AR with Optimizations promising us performance improvement of 400%-600%....