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Disclaimer: This post contains evil (but highly fun!) code. Proceed at your own peril… I was recently designing an application that needed to execute some long running requests against an external host. If you’ve ever tried doing something like this in Rails, you’ll find your mongrels will block up waiting for the request to complete, [...]
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 [...]
span.pro, li.pro { color: green; } span.con, li.con { color: red; } span.maybe, li.maybe { color: orange; } table.separated td { border-bottom: 1px solid #eee; vertical-align:top; line-height:1.2em; } ul.narrow li, table.separated ul li { margin:0; padding:0; margin-left:1em; } There are way too many tagging plugins for Rails. I’ve produced this post as an attempt to [...]
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