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This is a sort of quick follow up to the previous post. Since then, I’ve seen a few other tricks that can be used to improve the display of output in a Ruby console, as well as in application logs, to make that information more…

If you, like me, don’t like too much how Ruby objects usually look when displayed in a console (output on single lines, lack of indentation, and so on), it’s likely you also have looked for ways to prettify this kind of…

Today, as I am currently working on a side project that uses a lot the tableless_model gem, I came across what looks like a bug in ActiveRecord’s support for partial updates, when used with models that have serialised…

A better alternative to mysqldump? In the previous post, we’ve seen how to perform backups and restores of MySQL databases using the mysqldump tool bundled with the MySQL server distribution, together with a few tricks that…

Introduction This is the first part of a mini series that will cover various topics related to MySQL administration (in particular MySQL backups and restores) as well as several tips and tricks on using MySQL in our applications…

I have just published a tiny gem, called tableless_model. It includes some functionality I have used quite often in my recent projects, which can help reduce database complexity, and improve performance, by replacing tables and…

I usually tend to be a big fan of Google: I use many of their services all the time, I love the innovation they endlessly bring to the Web and the technology in general, and -while I could hardly believe in the “Don’t be…

(Update Jan 14, 2011: If you have already used this tip and are back to this post because it’s no longer working, read on… Google have updated the Translate API v2, so I have made some changes to the end of the post…

If you also have a blog powered by WordPress, and care at least a bit about keeping it secure, you may have thought about preventing others from accessing its administration pages…

Though few may recall it, today marks the fifth birthday of one of the most successful web development frameworks ever: Ruby on Rails. Its first official release, v1.0, was in fact released on December 13th, 2005. “RoR”…