Monthly Archives: January 2008

Nesting ActiveRecord transactions

Posted on January 24, 2008 by peter

I was experimenting with transactions in Rails/ActiveRecord to see what they can and what they can’t do. At first it seemed I couldn’t get transactions to work at all. I made sure I was using the InnoDB storage engine. I … Continue reading →

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Did you pass math

Posted on January 22, 2008 by peter

Some people complained about the fact that they had to register to add comments on this blog. Requiring people to login was the easiest way to get rid of spam after problems I had with SpamKarma. While waiting for eclipse/subversion … Continue reading →

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amsterdam.rb

Posted on January 18, 2008 by peter

Januari 28 will be the day of the first gathering of the Amsterdam’s Ruby User Group. I’d like to be there but due to the fact that at that time my wife will be over 40 weeks pregnant… I just … Continue reading →

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Learning Ruby at the Free Online Ruby Programming Course

Posted on January 10, 2008 by peter

A couple of weeks ago a I read about the free online Ruby course by Satish Talim. The course is aimed at people who want to start learning Ruby. I’ve probably passed the ‘starting stage’ a while ago, but was … Continue reading →

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