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I agree that 'context' and passing this context between middleware is the biggest missing item from the standard http+"pat". This library (Goji) solves it with a map[string]interfa…

We're talking microseconds here, not milliseconds

As another commenter mentioned, I learned about Martini midway through writing this. I really like Martini - if it existed a bit earlier, I probably would have just used it and bee…

I believe this is solved with gocraft/web: https://github.com/gocraft/web The middleware would be, per the example there: func (c *YourContext) UserRequired(rw web.ResponseWriter, …

You're right about the attr_accessible statement not being entirely accurate. Rails 3 does indeed have the concept of contexts. And, we're still on Rails 2.3 :). It also seems like…

It seems like what you've done there is create two mutations (signup and delete_account) within a single namespace. You can certainly do that with the Mutations gem. What I think y…

We're using this in Rails 2.3 without Strong Parameters. Mutations whitelist input just like strong parameters do. I don't really see why you would use both, although you certainly…

That's exactly the analogy I was going for. You don't want your general ruby code to be typed-checked, but it's actually fairly important to make sure your user inputs are checked,…

We use Mailgun at UserVoice.com for incoming mail. Of particular help to us: - All emails are converted to UTF-8 - There's always a 'plain' (text only) version of the email sent to…

This type of programming is incredibly useful when writing efficient code in low level languages (eg, linear algebra in C). When writing Ruby web apps, though, I haven't found a ne…