Standup 4/26/2010: Ruby hack night with Sarah Mei
Interesting Things Given a list of IDs, how do you find which ones are not in the database? ids = [1,2,3,4,5,0] missing_ids = ids - Model.find_all_by_id(ids).collect(&:id) Sarah Mei is hosting a...
View ArticleStandup 4/28/2010: Webrat threading errors & new RubyMine version
Ask for Help "We keep getting webrat thread exceptions running our integration specs with the rails integration runner: Thread tried to join itself. The error message varies with different versions of...
View ArticleStandup 5/28/2010: rails new :inverse_of association option automatically...
Interesting Things has_many and belongs_to associations can now automatically create back references each other, thanks to a Backport of :inverse_of from Rails 3 to rails 2.3.6. This allows us to keep...
View ArticleStandup 11/22/2010: How can a rails engine provide migrations?
Ask for help We just upgraded one project from Devise 1.1 to Devise 1.2 and reported "many problems which blew up all sorts of stuff". It was bad enough we had to rollback. Are there others with...
View ArticleStandup 5/10/2011: How safe are you videos over RTMP?
Ask for Help "Is flash RTMP streaming a secure way to stream video so it can't be downloaded?" We're using this with CloudFront + S3. But will it protect our content enough? "RubyMine + rspec 2.6, why...
View ArticleStandup 5/12/2011: Is it easy to patch a gem's dependencies to upgrade a...
Ask for Help "Rubymine is excluding code in our gem's spec/ directory from being indexed, can that be changed?" We assume this is an optimization, because most people aren't interested in anything from...
View ArticleStandup for 5/13/2011: requiring yaml and psyche, order matters
Interesting Things require "psyche"; require "yaml"? WRONG! We've found you have to do them in opposite order or your parsing is "all screwed up". Continue reading →The post Standup for 5/13/2011:...
View ArticleStandup 2/6/2012: Tracker UI updates
Ask for Help "pg gem version 0.12.2 seems to be leaving connections open sometimes after our application server is dead. This results in transactions that never finish. Anyone know what's up?"...
View ArticleStandup for 2/9/2012: NP in P time? As usual, no.
Ask for Help "How can I know all the descendants of a class in the superclass at load time in ruby? I want to create a scope for each subclass." You can't. "What popovers should I use?" We've used at...
View Article03/13/13: [SF] Use postgres!
Helps eager-loading nested polymorphic associations We have a controller action that performs n+1 queries to present associated models as nested hashes. The typical solution is to use :include to...
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