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Better Rails Searching with Named Scopes using Scope Builder
When it comes writing elegant search code in a Rails app, Named Scopes immediately come to mind. And for good reason: they’re a fantastic way to express, well, scopes, for your searches. In your Person model, you might have named … Continue reading
Quick and Dirty Messaging
Our Rails Rumble 2008 entry, Great Minds (you can have a look at the latest version or the original Rumble version), required a messaging system. Such systems are easy to do wrong, and we knew we’d need something that would … Continue reading
Posted in Great Minds, Javascript, Programming, Rails
Tagged gm, Great Minds, Javascript, message queue, messaging, Programming, Rails, rails rumble, ruby, ruby on rails, rumble
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Don’t try to be smarter than ActiveRecord
When you’re writing conditions for a finder in ActiveRecord, and you want to use an array of values for a sql in() statement, you might think to help ActiveRecord out and comma-separate the array values like this: type_ids = [1, … Continue reading