Ernie Miller

No, I don't work in NYC, DC, or the valley, and I'm cool with that.

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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Advanced ActiveRecord 3 Queries with Arel

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If you’ve been playing with Rails 3, you might not know that aside from the documented ways to construct your queries (chaining wheres with SQL fragments and hash conditions), there are some other nifty tricks waiting under the hood for you to discover.
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Mar 28, 2010

The latest on MetaSearch

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Version 0.3.0 of MetaSearch is out. Changes since the last time I posted include additional view helpers for gathering array input, the addition of unit tests, and easier attribute and association exclusion that honors excluded attributes through associations.
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Mar 16, 2010

MetaSearch, Object-based searching for Rails 3

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This weekend, I spent some time playing around with Rails 3‘s new Arel-based finder code, and put together a new object-based search gem for use with form_for. I’m calling it MetaSearch, both in reference to this domain, and all the metaprogramming fun in writing it. Here are the basics…
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Mar 7, 2010

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I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title, or the URL. I'm a Ruby programmer in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog used to be called "metautonomo.us", which I thought was kind of clever, but nobody, including me, could type it. Lesson learned.


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