I just released Valium 0.5.0. If you were getting single-element array values back when using value(s)_of against a loaded collection, this is now fixed. Thanks to gamov for the report! In other news, if you’ve been following Rails 3.2 news, you may have noticed that Rails core is getting functionality very similar to Valium and attr_bucket, two of my smaller gems. What’s that mean for these gems?
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Tag Archives: rails
I’m a Machinist! (and you should be, too)
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I joined Rails Machine last month! My title is Lead Solutions Architect, but basically, that just means I get to work with our customers on all sorts of really cool stuff. I also get to help us plan for all sorts of great things that we can’t yet announce just yet, so stay tuned for that.
I’d been holding off on making this announcement on my weblog until we had something on our company blog, but things are moving quickly, and since it happens that we are looking for another Machinist, I decided that I’d like to announce that here. So, if you love Web Operations, beer, Rails, ping pong, espresso, and working with awesome customers, then we should talk.
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Nov 30, 2011
A Belated Post on Squeel Sifters
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A few weeks ago, I added an interesting feature to Squeel, and never really said much about it other than a single tweet and a brief reference in the README. I’m calling the feature “sifters”, and I wanted to write a little bit about the purpose they serve.
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Sep 29, 2011
Prevent GoogleBot Overload with Default Nofollow
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Here’s a quick tip to exert greater control over which parts of your site a search engine should crawl: modify your link_to helper to make links rel="nofollow" by default. It’s easy:
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Sep 26, 2011
Valium 0.4.0 released, now with 100% more English
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Just a quick update about Valium 0.4.0. In 0.3.0, I enabled support for extracting attribute values from associations (a la User.posts[:id]). That was awesome, but as it turns out, not too compatible with 3.0.x associations.
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Sep 9, 2011
Slow MySQL query? I’ll give you a hint.
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I have a confession to make: I’ve placed too much trust in MySQL’s query planner. By the phrase, “too much trust,” I mean to say, “any trust, at all, ever.”
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Aug 30, 2011
The Cure for ActiveRecord Instantiation Anxiety: Valium
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No, not the drug — the Ruby gem! Have you ever written code like this?
Model.where(:attribute => 'value').map(&:id).each do |model_id| # ... end
I’m guessing you have, even if only as you were just getting started learning Rails/Ruby. It’s a bad idea.
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Aug 24, 2011
What’s new with Squeel?
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Why, I’m glad you asked! It’s been a while since I’ve made any updates about Squeel — since before RailsConf, actually! A lot’s been added since then.
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Jul 3, 2011
“WTH is happening to Rails?” I’ll tell you.
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I just read the blog post that got some traction on HN last night, entitled “What the hell is happening to rails?” It goes on to list a litany of complaints against changes in Rails 3.x, ranging from the default commenting of the catch-all route to, yes, of course, CoffeeScript. They all end up sounding a lot like “I don’t like change,” an argument we’ve all heard before. The difference is that Steve Coast, the post’s author, casts himself in the role of a crusader for the newbies. He says that he, personally, “gets” why these changes were made, but that the most recent versions of Rails are actually harder to learn than the older ones were. The post highlighted two things, to me:
- Some people still miss the point of Ruby on Rails, even after all these years.
- There’s a difference between “easy to learn” and “easy to use,” and when these competing goals butt heads, the latter should always win out.
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Jun 14, 2011
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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.