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Oracle needed an enema

November 28, 2007

Are you using Oracle with Ruby on Rails? The Oracle 10g (or so) version that has the new recyclebin feature? If so, you might have run into this problem I had recently. My problem was just a simple slowness experienced when running a deployment over SSH using Capistrano. As I worked on my application for several months, the deployment was getting slower and slower. To ...

Clean your Ruby on Rails ActiveRecords automatically

November 28, 2007

Let's say you need to make your Rails app have a field for users to put stuff in. Dangerous huh? The open nature of Ruby makes it simple to cleanup: app / model / cleaner . rb : --------------------- module Cleaner def self.append_features ( base ) base . before_save do | model | model . html = model . html . gs...

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Book Recommendation:

Ruby for Rails is a beginner level guide for Ruby on Rails programmers who don't yet know very much about the Ruby programming language. I have to be honest, this isn't one of my favorite books. I found it very informative, but often I would be reading along and start to think "I get it, now move on". Your experience with it may be different, especially if you're new to programming in general. It's well written, but a bit wordy in my opinion. Once you read it you will indeed know enough Ruby to begin to do Ruby on Rails programming.

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Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man - living in the sky - who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time... But He loves you!

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