Porting to Postgres on Rails
ShareAt inEvo, we recently changed a lot of Rails applications to run with Postgres. It sure is a high quality database and has some useful features that mysql just doesn’t has, like Views (mysql 5 has it, but Postgres as a better support for it and it’s free!).
Porting MySql to Postgres
First, we had a lot [...]
Improvements on Caches plugin for Rails
ShareOn of the nicest and simplest caches available, that you learn right on the classes is the method cache for Lisp.
This type of cache just overwrites the function definition, injecting some code. This code generates a static hash that stores the function results. The hash key is of course some unique key for args passed. [...]
