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As I mentioned in my last post, I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion as soon as it came out. I decided to upgrade MySQL from 5.1.57 to the latest 5.5.15 as well. I figured it was about time to do this on my development systems. I’m using Rails 3.1-rc4 and the mysql gem. I [...]

Aug 1st, 2011 | Filed under Mac OS X, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

I implemented params hash caching in a couple of my Rails 2.3.x projects. I use this to store the parameters that exist when entering the index action of my controllers for index views that have filters and pagination. I’ve done this so that users see the same view when returning to the index later, otherwise [...]

Mar 22nd, 2011 | Filed under Ruby, Ruby on Rails

I developed a Rails application at work and I needed to export that data for import into another system. The other system is running Oracle 11g. I am using MySQL. I read extensively on SQL Loader and provided the data that way, but I also wanted to provide another loader that would use sequences correctly, [...]

Jul 14th, 2010 | Filed under Ruby, Ruby on Rails