Ever thought about converting your RoR table to xls and enabling it as an output format in your Rails application controller? Excellent!

Ruby on Rails’ Active Record can serialize any object in text columns using YAML. So anytime you need to save an object to your database in your Rails application in a way that you could retrieve it as the same object later, you may use serialize.

Protected_rewriter is a Ruby on Rails plugin for handling protected attributes. Imagine you have many protected attributes in your Rails application model and you have to assign them in your controller. Now it’s easier then ever!