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		muloka on June 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition I've worked through most of the 2nd edition PDF when it first came out though received an email this afternoon stating "I'd also like to note that the latest PDF incorporates lots of improvements (including some big ones) discovered in the course of making the screencasts." Out of curiosity do you have a list of big improvements between the initial 2nd edition PDF and the most up to date release?

mhartl on June 5, 2012 [–]

The biggest thing is a complete elimination of the need for a lambda in the status feed. You can compare

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users?versi...

and

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users#sec:s...

to see the difference.

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