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Ransack, the library formerly known as MetaSearch 2.0

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A couple of nights ago, I pushed Ransack to GitHub. What’s Ransack? Well, previously I was calling it MetaSearch 2.0, and it’s a complete rewrite, not unlike the MetaWhere 2.0 development in the rewrite branch (a name change is also forthcoming for MW 2.0, if you’re curious). Why change names? A few reasons:
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Apr 1, 2011

The MetaWhere 2.0 Rewrite

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If you follow me on Twitter or have been following the rails core mailing list lately, you might have seen mention of the MetaWhere rewrite I’ve been working on. If you haven’t, let me start by linking you to the rewrite branch on GitHub. This is just a quick post explaining why I’m rewriting it, and why you should care.

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Feb 18, 2011

attr_bucket, A Gem for Your Lolrus Model

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Good evening, Internet! I hope you had a wonderful and productive workday. Now, with those pleasantries out of the way, I’d like to point you in the direction of a little gem called attr_bucket that I am regretful for having written even as I type this blog post suggesting you go try it. That is because this gem, while tiny and unassuming, has tremendous potential for evil.

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Jan 27, 2011

MetaWhere and MetaSearch 1.0.0 released!

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This has been a long time coming. Both MetaSearch and MetaWhere entered development as Rails 3-only gems early last year. Developing them was a great learning process, as I got to dive deeper into the innards of Rails and ARel than I ever expected, and track ARel through a complete rewrite and maintainer change, as well. The only updates you’ll notice from the last released gems are the docs (MetaSearch/MetaWhere), which should now be up to date (site docs to follow soon). It feels good to finally hit 1.0!

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Jan 17, 2011

Current MetaWhere/MetaSearch Gems are RCs

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Things have largely quieted down on the MetaSearch/MetaWhere front. The currently released gems are working well for me on a few large-ish projects, and I haven’t seen any serious bug reports in quite some time. I’m happy with the existing APIs, and while I’d certainly like to do a bit of refactoring, that’s nothing that should result in a breaking change. All this being said, I’m considering the latest releases of MW/MS as release candidates, and will be pushing out 1.0.0 of both relatively soon, barring any serious issues. Please get your bug reports in now!

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Jan 13, 2011

MetaSearch, MetaWhere, and Rails 3.0.3

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Well, Rails 3.0.3 is out, and it includes all of that ARel 2.x goodness I was rambling about a few weeks ago. Anyway, I just wanted to make a quick post here because I haven’t gotten around to updating docs with details on how to use all the new toys.
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Nov 21, 2010

Rails 3.0 release!

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So, the Rails team released Rails 3.0 yesterday, on my birthday. I am claiming it as my birthday present. Anyway, I ran a quick test on MetaWhere and MetaSearch and everything is still passing, so we should be good to go! Let me know if it’s not the case.

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Aug 30, 2010

Why MetaWhere 0.9.2 raises errors (and why you’ll thank me later)

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If you updated MetaWhere recently, and your application started raising MetaWhereInAssociationErrors, I’m sorry. But not too sorry. Because that error probably saved you from running into strange, confusing problems later. Let me explain.
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Aug 26, 2010

MetaWhere updates, in more detail

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With Rails 3.0 RC released, I decided I’d better step up the pace on the promise I made to cover recent updates to MetaWhere and MetaSearch in more detail prior to Rails 3 final. Tonight, I’d like to spend some time on detailing the changes to MetaWhere since 0.3.3.
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Jul 26, 2010

MetaSearch and MetaWhere 0.5.0 released!

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With the release of Rails 3.0.0.beta4 and Arel 0.4.0, all of the pieces have come together in gem form to allow a new gem release of both MetaSearch and MetaWhere.

I’m really excited about these releases, as they’ve been a long time coming. The last MetaSearch gem release was way back in March, while the last MetaWhere gem was released in April — this felt like an eternity in the fast-moving edge Rails world. :) I hope you enjoy the new release, and thanks in advance for submitting any bugs you find!

Now, on to what’s new since the last gem releases…
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Jun 8, 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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