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Sometimes you have a data migration that creates or modifies records in some way, and you would like to test it in your unit tests right? Except that Rails typically just clones the structure of your dev database, not its data. So how do you test that a migration succeeded? Simple, just invoke it during [...]
I noticed that when upgrading to Rails 2.0, my validates_acceptance_of started failing (or rather, it started telling me that my field was not accepted when the param being passed was ’1′). Apparently I had to add the :accept => true to make it work. I discovered this by reading the Rails source, where it mentions [...]
acts_as_versioned is a great plugin for versioning a set of model attributes transparently every time you save. The plugin seems to be built with exclusion in mind (version all except these) but to get it to work only on a specific set of columns, this simple trick can be applied: class Foo [:description_t] def versioned_attributes; [...]
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