Often I find that I am working on a project that has files under version control that I need to change in my environment, but never commit. A frequent example is the database.yml file in a rails project. Let’s put aside all the reasons you […]
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I was working on a rails application that needed to present some data as an HTML list with multiple levels. Something like: I was aware of the content_tag helper which can be used like so: to produce: Based on that pattern, I naively assumed that […]
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If you use Ruby on Rails at all, you deal with ActiveRecord regularly and may not even be aware of how much hidden magic there is. But sometimes the magic can breakdown just a little. It is very common to use one of the finder […]
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The other day I was working with a multi-database rails application, and I needed to generate a schema.rb for a secondary database. I assumed that the db:schema:dump rake task could probably take an argument to specify the output filename. But if this is documented anywhere, […]
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While doing some work for a client recently, I had the need to add some custom database setup to the test process for their rails application. We wanted to put this procedure in a rake task, but still wanted to be able to just use […]
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