I am currently working on a project that requires me to scope nearly all database queries by customer_id, because, you probably get the idea, each and every customer has its own set of data. Furthermore, the Customer class does not inherit from ActiveRecord::Base, nor is it an ActiveModel…
We all like the "Fat models, skinny controllers"-rule, but what to do if your models are becoming too fat? Split them up into smaller chunks, exactly. Of course this technique works for other classes, too. The first thing to do, is to check whether the module you're…
Forget what you read here before, and just do the following: curl -O http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-debug19/linecache19-0.5.13.gem curl -O http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-debug19/ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem gem install {linecache19-0.5.13.gem,ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem} \ --…
I know it’s been a month now, but here are the Slides of our (that’s Mark Schmidt and me) Talk about Redis at the Rails Usergroup Hamburg. In the worldcup prediction game section, I added the numbers for MySQL with and index, and those numbers are not anywhere…
I know NoSQL is upon us, but some of you might still be stuck with MySQL for the time being. Saying that, the mysql gem is not the best way to talk to your database using Ruby 1.9, at least if you are expecting UTF-8 characters to “just work”…
We know that Java must be pretty good, because it is the cool, new programming language. Or is it? If you look at the world of programming languages from a distance, it looks like Java is the latest thing. (From far enough away, all you can see is the large,…
The recent release of Rails 2.3.5 has fixed some Ruby 1.9 related bugs - which is nice. So I thought this is the right time to try porting an existing Rails 2.3 app to Ruby 1.9. Again, I was out of luck. The encoding problems…
Introduction Ah, the joy of Ruby 1.9! It really is a lot of faster. Time to move your Rails app over, you think. You have been keeping up with the latest Rails versions, until the latest stable v2.3.2.1, so moving on to Ruby 1.9 should…